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Northern Territory senator Malarndirri McCarthy says it’s ‘beyond time’ for NT to make its own laws on assisted dying
All four of the Northern Territory’s federally elected members want the NT to be able to make its own laws on assisted dying, but a bill passed by the Commonwealth in 1997 is still preventing them from doing so.
Key points:
- The NT in 1995 became the first place in the world to legalise voluntary euthanasia
- But a federal bill passed two years later repealed it, and continues to prevent territories form passing assisted dying laws
- NT politicians have called for territories to have the same rights as states to pass their own laws
The NT’s two senators — Labor’s Malarndirri McCarthy and the Country Liberal Party’s Sam McMahon — say the Federal Government should not have the power to stop territories from making laws on the issue.
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