“I will take over the portfolio of Correctional Services later today” — NT Chief Minister, Adam Giles, July 26, 2016
“I would love to be the Corrections minister. It is not the portfolio I really aspire to but, if I was the prisons minister, I would build a big concrete hole and put all the bad criminals in there: ‘Right, you are in the hole, you are not coming out. Start learning about it’. I might break every United Nations’ convention on the rights of the prisoner but, ‘Get in the hole’.” — Adam Giles, NT Legislative Assembly, Hansard, October 20, 2010
As the local paper today says …
Will sacking a few politicians and public servants wash away the collective guilt of the voters and newpapers of NT?
How convenient for the NT News to abandon ship when it suits. This scandal has been happening right under their editorial nose but they were too busy entertaining the local airheads with rogue crocs on page one.
Now it trumps crocs and nob-ends.
The Commonwealth, as demonstrated by the Rodent when he intervened on euthanasia, the Intervention or anything else that suited his ideology so maybe SilverMal can just dismiss the entire toy-town Keystone cohort.
Direct Rule from Canberra, Diplock Courts, H blocks in the concrete holes?
Can we just remember back to March 2015 and the assault launched on Professor Gillian Triggs, the HRC President, by the PM and the A-G and the Senate Committee Chair who did not read her report The Forgotten Children because he knew it would be biased?
Of course the custody of non-white kids is ignored. It has ever been thus.
This country is stained by ‘detention culture’.
This is no longer too strong to say.
Last convict transportation to Australia? WA 1868? Or not?
“I would build a big concrete hole and put all the bad criminals in there: ‘Right, you are in the hole.”