Key senators back government proposal to empower territories to legislate on euthanasia

Current laws leave residents as second-class citizens' and move is seen as broader push to allow territories to make their own laws

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Key senators will support a government push to let territories make their own laws on voluntary assisted dying, with two Labor backbenchers set to introduce the bill in the first weeks of the new parliament.

Jacqui Lambie and Tammy Tyrrell of the Jacqui Lambie Network, One Nation's Pauline Hanson and Liberal senator Andrew Bragg have all backed the push for territory rights.

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