Northern Territory senator Malarndirri McCarthy says it's 'beyond time' for NT to make its own laws on assisted dying FriFriday 15 Senator Malarndirri McCarthy says the ultimate goal of the NT should be statehood. ( Share Print text only Cancel 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in 1995 became the first place in the world to legalise voluntary euthanasia But a federal bill passed two years later repealed it, and continues to prevent territories form passing assisted dying laws