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Andrew Denton gave a candid interview during Thursday's episode of The Project, talking about his personal campaign to legalise euthanasia across Australia.
The 61-year-old veteran TV host said he was inspired to take up the cause after witnessing his father Kit 'die painfully' in 1997.
'I realised there were really terrible things happening to people at the end of life - suicides, traumatic deaths, laws which were inadequate to help people who were in distress at the end of life,' he explained.
Speaking out: Andrew Denton gave a candid interview during Thursday's episode of The Project, talking about his personal campaign to legalise euthanasia across Australia. Pictured in Sydney in April
'More than that, I realised that, led to some extent by the Catholic Church, but also others in the medical community, there was a concerted campaign to deny that this was happening, or pretend it wasn't happening, or to pretend it was under control.
'What I saw really was some of the most powerful people in the country stopping justice for
