Labor backbenchers will seek to reverse a 25-year ban on the ACT and Northern Territory legalising voluntary assisted dying as territory rights are pitted against staunch opposition to euthanasia | LisaVisentin
Labor backbenchers will seek to reverse a 25-year ban on the ACT and Northern Territory legalising voluntary assisted dying this week, as debate begins in the federal parliament pitting territory rights against staunch opposition to euthanasia.
Gosling said he anticipated the bill would pass the lower house but face a tougher challenge in the Senate, where a vote will not happen until later in the year. Known as the “Andrews laws”, the 1997 Euthanasia Laws Act banned the territories from legalising voluntary euthanasia and was enacted after the NT briefly became the first jurisdiction in the world to do so in 1995.In recent years, the federal ban has seen the ACT and NT become outliers as states legalised voluntary assisted dying, with NSW the last to do so
In Labor’s ranks, opposition is most likely to come from members aligned to the conservative Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association.
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