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The Northern Territory's new chief minister, Lia Finocchiaro , has made many statements reinforcing her conservative party’s plans to deal with crime.
These have included reducing the NT’s age of criminal responsibility back down to 10 years old , creating boot camps, welfare cuts for parents of youth offenders, and the reintroduction of spit hoods.
While other jurisdictions are looking at raising the age (though the Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan , has walked back her support to raise the age to 14), the NT is going backwards.
Selena Uibo has now taken up the leadership of NT Labor .
Celeste Liddle was a Greens candidate for the seat of Cooper in the 2022 federal election.
She left the party in February 2023 .
Liddle is a freelance writer, social commentator and activist.
She is an Arrernte woman living in Melbourne and lives in Melbourne .
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