Northern Territory senator Malarndirri McCarthy says it s beyond time for NT to make its own laws on assisted dying
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Senator Malarndirri McCarthy says the ultimate goal of the NT should be statehood.
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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.
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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But a federal bill passed two years later repealed it, and continues to prevent territories form passing assisted dying laws
The NT pioneered voluntary euthanasia before the law was overruled. Now there is a campaign to restore it
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JanJanuary 2021 at 6:59pm
Sharon Cramp-Oliver, pictured with her husband Spud, said if voluntary euthanasia was legal, her mum may not have died alone.
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Sharon Cramp-Oliver has boxes full of her mum s old diaries.
In them, 77-year-old Liz Holmes wrote about the adventures of her three children, what made the nightly news and in the years leading up to her death the unbearable pain she experienced and detailed plans to end her own life.
WARNING: This story contains content that some readers may find distressing.