In the Territory, Don Dale Youth Detention Facility have featured heavily amid local discussion around minimum age of criminal responsibility. Picture: Amanda Parkinson. About 70 countries have ...
The Northern Territory has passed new laws that lower the age of criminal responsibility to 10, about two years after the previous government raised the age to 12. It comes a day after the Country ...
Source: AAP / Amanda Parkinson The Northern Territory has passed laws lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 10. The laws were passed with the government's 17 to seven majority.
In 2022, the previous Labor Government raised the age of criminal responsibility in the NT to 12, becoming the first Australian jurisdiction to do so. The Northern Territory Government has lowered the ...