The Northern Territory and ACT remain banned from voting on legalising voluntary assisted dying and as of today, are the last jurisdictions without it. It's now erupted into an election issue.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed a re-elected Coalition government won't allow the Northern Territory and ACT a chance to vote on legalising voluntary assisted dying.Australia's territories remain banned from voting on whether to allow assisted dying
It has now erupted as an election issue in the Northern Territory, with a Country Liberal Party candidate accused of "treachery" for not supporting the NT Parliament being allowed a vote. "This is nothing more than an act of outright treachery from a self-centred person who does not have and never will have the interests of Territorians at heart," she said.of the Northern Territory regaining a right to vote on the issue.to overturn the federal government's block on the territories' voting rights.
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