CANBERRA, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Australian Greens leader Bob Brown will introduce a fresh euthanasia bill into the Senate next week following an emotional video plea by a dying Melbourne writer Angelique Flowers to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

    Flowers died last month after a long battle with Crohn's disease and a short but painful fight against colon cancer.

    Senator Brown said in a statement on Saturday that his bill aims to repeal the commonwealth Euthanasia Laws Act 1997 and thereby allow the Northern Territory and the ACT to make legislation permitting voluntary euthanasia.

    The new bill amends Senator Brown's Rights of the Terminally Ill (Euthanasia Laws Repeal) Bill 2008, introduced in February.

    A Senate committee delivered a report on the original bill in June with Labor senators saying they would support it with some amendments.

    A push to legalize euthanasia in Victoria was defeated in the state's upper house earlier this week.