Victoria has just voted to remove its most basic human right: Paul Keating

By Mark Kenny, National Affairs Editor
Updated October 20 2017 - 9:43pm, first published 9:32pm

Former Labor prime minister Paul Keating has reacted angrily to the passage of Victoria's Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill through the state's lower house, branding it "deeply regressive" and an abrogation of "the core instinct to survive".

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