‘There’s never been a better time to be an independent,’ says Sydney MP celebrating 10 years in office
hen Alex Greenwich achieved what many before him had failed to do by getting voluntary assisted dying legislationThe bill introduced by the progressive MP for Sydney was, more than any bill in Australia’s history. When it passed parliament in May this year NSW became the last state in Australia to allow euthanasia for people suffering from terminal illness.
Greenwich says his first reaction after the vote was to collapse on to the couch in his parliamentary office, exhausted. “I almost declined the celebration dinner with supporters – I just needed sleep!” he says. The former Australian Marriage Equality head cites his unlikely alliance with the notoriously homophobic and ultra-conservative Fred Nile, 87, as evidence of his enthusiasm for collaboration. “You can put people in a box, refuse to work for them,” he says. “Or you can do what Fred and I did: find common ground [on theHe cites being a middle child of divorced parents as the training ground for bringing opposing sides together to achieve results.
Well-versed in sticking his neck out for trans people, Greenwich threatened to withdraw supply to Perrottet’s minority government when the premier echoed concerns expressed by the controversial Liberal federal candidate Katherine Deves about trans people’s participation in sport.
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