NTCOSS, along with our partners: @AMSANTaus, @NAAJA_NT, @APONT_AGMP and NT Legal Aid welcomes legislative changes to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 12. We congratulate the NT Government for keeping its promise and will continue the...
For immediate release Wednesday 14th September 2022 Media Release: Urgent action needed to stop shameful neglect of our childrenWill it take a tragedy to force the Northern Territory Government to take tangible action and remove children from the notorious Don Dale...
By Deborah Di Natale – CEO – Northern Territory Council of Social Service – Sunday Territorian newspaper 18/9/22 Last week I visited Darwin’s Don Dale Youth Detention Centre and I was appalled by what I saw. Here we are, five years since the NT Royal...
Read more A community that treats its children like this, breaching the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, should be ashamed, Northern Territory Council of Social Service CEO Deborah Di Natale and Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance NT chief executive Dr John...
NT Council of Social Service CEO Deborah Di Natale speaks about the inhumane conditions and treatment of children in the NT after the NT Children’s Commissioner told the Chief Minister a child may die in a government-run detention centre. Aboriginal children continue...
Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance NT chief executive John Paterson speaks about the inhumane conditions and treatment of children in the NT after the NT Children’s Commissioner told the Chief Minister a child may die in a government-run detention centre. Aboriginal...
