Australian Capital Territory Pushes Ahead With Euthanasia Laws

Australian Capital Territory Pushes Ahead With Euthanasia Laws
A view down Anzac Parade towards Parliament House in Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Patty Jansen/pixabay
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The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) will move to start community consultations early next year on voluntary assisted dying laws after a quarter-century ban was overturned.

The Senate passed a repeal bill to remove the embargo on Australia’s two territories legislating on euthanasia after the Northern Territory (NT) became the first jurisdiction to legalise it in 1995.