Little has changed since the royal commission. There is no way this would continue to happen to white Australian children
The Northern Territory’s juvenile legal system continues to be “Australia’s shame”. This situation is a gross injustice and central to the kind of country Australia really is. It’s also extremely expensive, with Australians paying for all of it. The NT adult “super jail” which opened in 2014 at a cost of $1.8bn is now overcrowded. The courts in the NT legal system operate more like clearing houses than courts of law: remanding and sentencing Indigenous men, women and children at alarming rates.
From my vantage as a Territory lawyer, I saw this “system”, for want of a better word, pass its tipping point about four or five years ago.
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