Katter's Australian Party state leader Robbie Katter moved an amendment to the VAD Bill, calling for it to be shelved until the Government provided extra funding to palliative care.
The Bill is expected to pass with 43 MPs saying they would support the laws.
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Ms D'Ath said the amendments, which received the backing of three LNP MPs, were unnecessary.
"To come in here and move an amendment that will see this debate cease and be delayed… to turn around and say to the people of Queensland sorry we're going to put this on hold….to hold up this Bill and this debate this week…. is shameful," Ms D'Ath said.
"This is, I have to say, a stunt.
"It is unfair to every member in this House who wants to speak, who wants to have a say."
Mr Katter questioned across the chamber whether he should "just roll over?"
The Katter amendment was defeated 53-37.
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Queensland Parliament adjourned the voluntary assisted dying debate after hours of considering the landmark laws.
LNP Southern Downs MP James Lister was the final speaker, confirming he would not support the Bill.
Six Opposition MPs today confirmed they would vote for the legislation.
With almost all 52 Labor MPs and three crossbench votes expected to support the Bill, voluntary assisted dying is shaping as almost certain to pass.
Here are the key moments of day one:
- Deputy Premier Steven Miles moved the second reading, beginning the debate
- Opposition Leader David Crisafulli broke a months-long silence to reveal he would vote against the Bill – describing it as "flawed legislation"
- Katter's Australia Party Leader Robbie Katter used a little-known parliamentary procedural motion to move a surprise amendment calling for the debate to be paused until the government provides an extra $270m to palliative care
- Several MPs including Ministers Mark Furner, Meaghan Scanlon and Yvette D'Ath revealed personal anguish at watching loved ones suffer
The Courier-Mail will continue the coverage of this historic debate on Wednesday after question time.
– Hayden Johnson
Labor's Maryborough MP Bruce Saunders, Kurwongbah MP Shane King and LNP Mermaid Beach MP Ray Stevens will support the Bill.
Katter's Australia Party MP Shane Knuth, who earlier seconded his leader's push to amend the debate, said he would vote against the Bill.
– Hayden Johnson
Jess Pugh has revealed she isn't the first person in her family to vote for voluntary assisted dying, with her grandparents voting yes in New Zealand's referendum last year.
Ms Pugh, the Deputy Government Whip, said the Bill had safeguards, was not available extensively to people with a disability or the elderly.
She will support the Bill.
– Hayden Johnson
Warrego MP Ann Leahy has raised concerns about a lack of palliative care funding and said the VAD proposal could create undue consequences for vulnerable people.
Ms Leahy questioned: "Will they feel under pressure to nominate themselves for termination".
She said across her electorate there was a poor level of palliative care services.
Ms Leahy said experts told her the legislation would allow people to "push the delete button on their life", and will vote against the Bill.
– Hayden Johnson
Hervey Bay MP Adrian Tantari has also shared the heartbreaking story of his father, who the Labor pollie says would have accessed VAD in his dying days.
Mr Tantari said Queenslanders would continue to have access to high-quality palliative care.
He will support the Bill.
– Hayden Johnson
Opposition MP Steve Minnikin said under the government's Bill, VAD would not have helped his father, but he will vote for the legislation.
Mr Minnikin becomes the third Opposition MP to support the Bill, which he said would help Queenslanders long into the future.
"Our names, once added to the member's honour board, will fade into obscurity," he said.
"This Bill is one I support."
Mr Minnikin's father suffered dementia which would not qualify for assisted dying under the government's Bill.
– Hayden Johnson
Resources Minister Scott Stewart will support the Bill after his own father's experience.
"The majority of people want to be able to have a choice," he said.
"This issue should rightly be above political parties, lines and religions."
Toowoomba North MP Trevor Watts raised fears faith-based healthcare organisations could not object to VAD happening at their facilities.
"It's not good legislation," he said.
Mr Watts will vote against the legislation.
– Hayden Johnson
Member for Burleigh Michael Hart said although he would vote yes the Bill was not perfect and he would listen to the amendments very carefully.
He said it was difficult to legislate the concept of "choice" at a person's end of life but said it was his overwhelming "life philosophy" that everyone was entitled to make their own choices in life regardless of whether he agreed with them or not.
He said he would have done anything to stop the pain his father was in when he died six year ago from cancer but couldn't.
Mr Hart said the majority of his constituents supported the Bill and that he agreed people deserved the right to decide how they lived their lives and also how they died.
– Jill Poulsen
ENVIRONMENT Minister Meaghan Scanlon has been reduced to tears detailing her own family's experience with death.
Ms Scanlon said her father had suffered at the end of his life while undergoing constant bouts of chemotherapy.
She said it did not matter now advanced palliative care was.
"Not all suffering can be taken away," she said.
"This whole debate is about choice."
Ms Scanlon will support the Bill.
