Thirteen years of the ALP telling me how to think has now been followed by just on one year of the Liberal Party telling me how to think. Sure, there've been some positive signs on free speech, but when it came to the crunch, Howard caved and wouldn't allow either Gerry Adams or David Irving into the country. I am a liberal, Mr Howard, and I support voluntary euthanasia. I support it for the same reason that I support abortion rights, the decriminalising of cannabis and freedom of speech. Freedom of choice is absolutely integral to the philosophy of liberalism.
Freedom of choice is hard.
Sometimes it means tolerating the intolerant. Sometimes it means hearing people saying hurtful things to other people. If we aspire to creating a liberal state, these are skills we have to learn. It is not. It simply advocates an opinion, in a rather gentle, often moving way.