One of Australia’s most senior Catholic leaders has called on the Church to strongly oppose the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide in New South Wales.

Dominican Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney told Catholics to make their voices heard because “the lives of the vulnerable depend on it”.

New South Wales is one of two Australian states which have yet to introduce a euthanasia or assisted suicide law.

The law was changed in Western Australia and Victoria in 2019 and in South Australia and Queensland earlier this year.