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22 May 2025

Listen to the audio and read the transcript of CEO Sue Shearer’s interview on 22 May 2025 with 360 with Katie Woolf following the announcement from the NT Attorney General’s that the Chair of the NT government’s Legal and Consitutional Affairs Committee has been asked to undertake an inquiry into the VAD Report 2024 and subsequent response from COTA NT, media release: COTA NT urges Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee to listen to lived experience – 15 May 2025.

[Transcript Extract – Katie Woolf] Now, last week the Northern Territory Attorney General announced that she’d written to doctor Tanzil Raman, the Member for Fong Lim, in his capacity as the chair of the Legal and  Constitutional Affairs Committee, requesting the Committee undertake an inquiry into the voluntary assisted dying in the Northern Territory final Report for twenty twenty four.  But many people contacted this show and said that they felt really this was far too slow and the government were dragging their heels on this important issue.  Then yesterday we learned the Leader of the Opposition had initiated the process of drafting a private member’s bill to legislate voluntary assisted dying in the Northern Territory.  Now, once drafted, that bill is going to be released for broad community consultation before returning to Parliament for a conscience vote….

“I’ve been a Christian for fifty years. I believe involuntary assisted dying. I think it should be implemented in the Northern Territory.  Why is it taking so long? Hurry up, Northern Territory government. God doesn’t want this tribe to suffer reckons.” David Gray

The show continued to take calls throughout the morning.