Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton led an overwhelming ‘yes’ vote to end the Howard-era Andrews Bill ban, which bans assisted dying schemes in the ACT and NT.
Howard-era laws blocking the Northern Territory and the ACT from establishing assisted dying schemes could be overturned as soon as next month, after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton voted in favour of a private members’ bill on Wednesday.in the House of Representatives on legislation to end the so-called Andrews bill, which passed convincingly with the support of 99 MPs, including Mr Dutton, deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley and Greens leader Adam Bandt.
The support of conservative Liberal and Labor senators will be critical to the result in the upper house, with a vote expected before the end of the year.The legislation was enacted after the NT parliament’s move to become the first jurisdiction in the world to legalise voluntary euthanasia in 1995. In the nine months before the laws were overturned by federal parliament, nine people ended their own lives.
“The ACT government welcomes the news that today the House of Representatives has decisively voted to restore territory rights, 99 to 37,” he said.Mr Gosling, who represents the NT seat of Solomon and personally opposes euthanasia, said the vote was a significant step for territory rights.“By an overwhelming margin today in the House of Representatives, our colleagues have said territorians should have the same democratic rights as those Australians living in the states,” he said.
Shadow attorney-general Julian Leeser, who is Jewish, drew parallels between euthanasia and the killing of disabled and vulnerable people in Nazi Germany.“As federal politicians, it’s not our responsibility to debate the issue of voluntary assisted dying,” she said.
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