If passed, they could be the first laws in Australia to legalise euthanasia since the Northern Territory's laws were quashed by the Federal Government.

In a statement on Thursday, the Andrews Government said the bill would allow adults with decision making capacitywho are at the end of their lives and suffering from a terminal illness to be provided with assistance to die.

There is support within government for assisted dying laws; a formal parliamentary response to a landmark inquiry shows the government wants more work to be carried out on how assisted dying would work in Victoria.

The Age understands that this afternoon the Labor government will announce a ministerial panel to work out how to best build assisted dying laws.

It is understood that this panel would be tasked with ensuring who qualifies and how assisted dying would work is legally tight and well-defined.

Across the parliament, MPs have indicated support for some type of scheme, with many saying they would support a law that had strict and tight rules about who qualified and assurance that there was strict oversight of the laws.

The formal response says the plans outlined by the investigation for assisted dying laws "lack the legal, clinical and organisational detail" about how it would work and needs further review.

"Consistent with the introduction of any new medical intervention or procedure, rigorous review of the assisted dying framework should be undertaken, including safety and quality considerations and the impact on wider health care delivery, including resource implication for palliative and end of life care," the response says.

The government says consistent with any new medical intervention a "rigorous review of the assisted dying framework should be undertaken, including safety and quality considerations and the impact on wider health care delivery including resource implication for palliative and end of life care."

The government has backed most of the report's 46 recommendations, including calls to bolster palliative care services across the state and enable more Victorians to be able to die at home.

Some of these were addressed by its ambitious end of life framework released in July with a $7.2 million commitment to expand specialist palliative care services, support GPs to assist people at home, and to develop a standardised care model.

Other supported reforms include improvements to rural and regional access to palliative care through funding community and health clinics to expand their services.

The government rejected mandatory reporting of continuous palliative sedation on the grounds it may discourage use of these medications and patients in need could miss out.

It also rejected a recommendation for a registry hotline for advance care planning to be run out of a body established for assisted dying, saying the two should not be combined.

Greens health spokeswoman Colleen Hartland said the government should support the framework recommended by the inquiry.

"That will give the best chance of getting the support required to pass this law," Ms Hartland said.

"Consultation with affected communities should start today, because their concerns need to be heard and factored into the legislation."

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he did not support voluntary euthanasia.

"If I was voting in a state parliament, which obviously I wouldn't be, as a matter of conscience I would not vote for euthanasia but it is very much a conscience issue," Mr Turnbull told radio station 3AW.

For social historian Deb Campbell the proposed framework doesn't go far enough.  She has written a book about voluntary euthanasia and was a keynote speaker at the recent EXIT International conference in Melbourne.

Dr Campbell believes the proposed legal changes will "merely replace one set of gatekeepers with another, requiring people to get  'permission' to die from the medical profession."

"No permission should be necessary, and this issue is one of civil rights for Victorians, not health care," she said.

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