'System is broken': all children in NT detention are Aboriginal, officials say

Committee hears that government is 'not ready' to implement Don Dale commission recommendations despite 'failed policy'

Almost three years on from the royal commission into Don Dale, every single child in detention in the Northern Territory is Aboriginal, the NT social policy scrutiny committee has been told.

But as one committee member said the system was "broken", Territory Families said it was still "not ready" to implement some of the royal commission's key recommendations, including raising the age of criminal responsibility to 12 years old, and the age of detention to 14.