{"id":2218,"date":"2015-10-15T00:24:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T15:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exitinternational.net\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2015-10-15T00:24:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T15:54:58","slug":"new-pm-more-receptive-on-issue-says-campaigner-dr-philip-nitschke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euthanasia.net\/exit\/new-pm-more-receptive-on-issue-says-campaigner-dr-philip-nitschke\/","title":{"rendered":"New PM ‘more receptive’ on issue, says campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voluntary euthanasia: PM Malcolm Turnbull ‘more receptive’ on issue, campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke says<\/h2>\n

Nitschke believes Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will be more receptive than his predecessor to a proposal to remove laws that ended legal assisted suicide in the NT.<\/p>\n

Speaking to 105.7 ABC Darwin from Switzerland, Dr Nitschke said Mr Turnbull had a more open and accepting position on euthanasia.<\/p>\n

“With Prime Minister Turnbull, I think we may see a more receptive response to this proposal to remove this offensive piece of legislation, which has been in place for nearly 20 years,” he said.<\/p>\n

Dr Nitschke’s comment came in response to news Liberal Democratic Senator David Leyonhjelm would introduce a private members bill in the next Federal Parliament sittings to scrap the legislation that ended legal assisted suicide in the Northern Territory.<\/p>\n

“While it is too late to simply reinstate the Northern Territory Act, repeal of the Andrews Bill would send a signal to states and territories that their legislatures may now turn their attention to this issue,” he said.<\/p>\n

In 1997, while a backbencher in the Howard Government, former defence minister Kevin Andrews passed a private members bill that amended the Northern Territory’s Self Government Act, removing the power of the Territory to legalise euthanasia.<\/p>\n

The bill nullified the NT’s Rights of the Terminally Ill Act<\/em>, which had been in effect since July 1996.<\/p>\n

Labor frontbencher Tony Burke, then the director of the Euthanasia No! group, worked with Mr Andrews on the bill.<\/p>\n

Dr Nitschke said Senator Leyonhjelm’s bill had a better chance of passing with Tony Abbott and Kevin Andrews now on the backbench.<\/p>\n

“[Malcolm Turnbull] is much more prepared to listen to what is the overwhelming wishes of most Australian’s that they want changes to the laws,” he said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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