Commentary Once again, rights to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion—all fundamental freedoms set out in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and which Australia has ratified—are under attack. This time, the threat comes from the recent decision of Queensland’s Palaszczuk government to deny faith-based hospitals and aged care facilities the right to opt-out of administering euthanasia when it is legalised. Most religious health and aged care providers oppose efforts to make it lawful for doctors to kill patients by administering a lethal cocktail of drugs—a process fashionably described as “voluntary assisted dying,” or VAD. States such as Victoria, Tasmania, and Western Australia, which have already legalised euthanasia, have accepted the right of individual practitioners to opt-out of the practice on the basis of conscience. But only South Australia has extended that right of conscientious objection to faith-based organisations. Now the Queensland government has found a way around …