National Network's Tabitha Lean on Country Liberal Crackdown on NT Inmates

After cleaning up at the August 2024 election, the Finocchiaro ministry has been implementing its tough-on-crime agenda for the Northern Territory, which by late October meant the removal of women inmates from Mparntwe-Alice Springs and sticking them in the overcrowded Darwin Correctional Centre.

But that's the way the Country Liberal Party sets about governing in the territory – just like an 19th century penal colony.

One can imagine that current NT chief minister Lia Finocchiaro laid out her pre-election plans to lower the age of criminality down from 12 to 10, as well as the reinstatement of spit hoods in police watchhouses, as she was standing before the local courthouse chewing on tobacco.