“If I made a mistake, it was probably not putting a residential requirement in the legislation,” he said.
“It seemed to me wrong somehow that if someone had been visiting the territory and took ill in some way and was in a bed with the same conditions as a Territorian, one entitled to voluntary euthanasia … and the person in the bed next to them not.
Former Northern Territory chief minister Marshall Perron says people are dying slow deaths from “terminal sedation”.Credit:Brendan Esposito
“If the basis of this legislation is compassion, then it should apply to anyone who is in the Northern Territory.
“I think that fact probably aggravated opponents in Canberra more than anything, it was stated that you have legislated for the whole of Austr…
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