Bill
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2018
lapsed, as at 2019-04-11. (s) LEIGH, Andrew, MPGOSLING, Luke, MP portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Andrew Leigh
- Portfolio
- (s) LEIGH, Andrew, MPGOSLING, Luke, MP
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2018-08-20
- second reading — 2018-08-20
- other — 2018-08-22
- second reading — 2018-09-10
- other — 2019-04-11
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2018-08-20.
This bill would undo a 1997 Commonwealth restriction that limited what laws the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory could make.
It would end a unique limitation on the territories' elected lawmakers that no other part of Australia faces.
The bill says the Northern Territory's old euthanasia law would not automatically come back; each territory could later decide on that topic in its own time.
- Removes Commonwealth constraints on the legislative powers of the ACT and Northern Territory.
- Restores the democratic rights of territory citizens to have their elected representatives debate and legislate on complex issues.
- Ensures the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act (NT) is not automatically revived.
- Allows the Northern Territory and ACT parliaments to examine euthanasia legislation at a time of their choosing.
Citizens and elected representatives of the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory.
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