Graham Adams 
Fervent euthanasia opponent Maggie Barry is giving her party a headache that may last right up to next year’s election. When Judith Collins tearfully told Parliament during the second reading of David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill in June that she had been on “the wrong side” of the debate and now she was … Read more
If David Seymour’s assisted dying bill gets knocked out in Parliament, hopes of a referendum at the 2020 election die with it, writes Graham Adams. We will soon find out — probably in the next six weeks — which of our MPs believe in participatory democracy and which don’t. The vote on the second reading … Read more
The North Shore MP’s aggressive opposition to the End of Life Choice Bill is proving such a turn off that it can only bolster the pro-euthanasia side, writes Graham Adams. David Lange – famed stand-up comic and New Zealand’s funniest prime minister – once quipped that National leader Jim Bolger had “gone around the country … Read more