Child appealing for bail is one of 35 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children being held in infamous Darwin jail
A barrister will on Tuesday appeal for bail for an 11-year-old Indigenous child facing a Christmas spent in the Northern Territory’s infamous Don Dale detention centre.
The former prison was essentially “derelict”, he said. “It’s a shocker, it’s like walking through some kind of dystopia.” “This does not need to, nor should it, wait for treaty,” reads the letter, signed by Aunty Geraldine Atkinson and Marcus Stewart.
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