Bill Shorten calls for changes to NT juvenile justice royal commission

By Damien Murphy
Updated July 30 2016 - 10:13pm, first published 8:52pm
The United Nations says "most of the children who were held at the detention facility are deeply traumatised". Photo: ABC
The United Nations says "most of the children who were held at the detention facility are deeply traumatised". Photo: ABC
Mr Shorten said an estimated 2000 Aboriginal children had been through the NT juvenile justice system in the last decade.

 Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Mr Shorten said an estimated 2000 Aboriginal children had been through the NT juvenile justice system in the last decade. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Aborigines from northern Australia should be appointed co-commissions of the royal commission into juvenile detention to guard against perceptions it was not independent of the Giles government, the Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten said in Darwin on Saturday.

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