Mandatory refusal of youth bail included in NT Labor’s tough-on-crime crackdown

The Northern Territory government is promising more young people will be refused bail and remanded in the youth detention system as a result of changes announced in a tough-on-crime crackdown.

The measures outlined by Chief Minister Michael Gunner on Tuesday were unveiled ahead of a push in NT Parliament by the Country Liberal opposition this week, which has ramped up its long-standing calls to axe changes made after the Royal Commission into the Detention and Protection of Children in the Northern Territory. 

Some of the government’s changes could go further than what the opposition has proposed, including new rules that would force courts to revoke bail in certain circumstances.

The changes have the backing of NT Police…