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The video aired by ABC includes footage of a 17-year-old boy bound to a restraint chair with his head covered by a hood, allegedly for two hours.
The Four Corner’s broadcast compared the detention centre to Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay.
“We certainly need some kind of government-based independent commission”, she told ABC TV’s Q&A program. ‘We will get to the bottom of what happened here’.
Mr Turnbull promised the inquiry would expose the culture that allowed such abuse to occur and remain hidden for so long.
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Dylan Voller also had been at the Darwin center and was one of six teens who the ABC report said were tear-gassed there in 2014.
There is now a review under way into the correctional system as a whole, and the government “intends to appoint an inspector general from interstate to undertake an immediate health check of our juvenile justice system”.
“I support the concept of a royal commission”.
“I think all Australians would be shocked by the abuse that was revealed”.
The allegations mirror those in USA junvenile detention centers where prison guards in Chicago, New York, California and elsewhere have been accused of similar mistreatment of black and Latino youths.
Voller: “I don’t want the restraint chair bro”.
“Any child locked up in solitary confinement in the Northern Territory need to be released immediately”.
In particular, the royal commission while probe why two reports to the NT government in 2015 “were not given effect to sufficiently or at all”, Senator Brandis said.
Turnbull announced on Tuesday that a royal commission would be held in conjunction with the NT government in response to the ABC report.
Australian politicians and public figures responded with horror after the original footage was aired, with one federal politician describing it as “child torture”.
“I would have thought that’s an irresponsible attitude to take to this”, he said of Mr Giles’ reaction. “I don’t find that a plausible answer at all”.
He called for the matter to be put on the COAG agenda to reduce Indigenous incarceration rates.
“This royal commission, which will be done in collaboration with the Northern Territory government, will be focused on the youth detention centres and youth detention practices in the Northern Territory that were the subject of the Four Corners programme”, he said on Wednesday. “They had access to the footage”.
Treasurer Scott Morrison said “the horror that we saw last night can not go unanswered” and also believes there need to be immediate responses and the inquiry must address a “broader systemic issue”.
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‘Mr Martin is extremely well-qualified for this task, ‘ he said.
