Mick Gooda says NT government ‘backing away’ from youth detention royal commission findings

Mick Gooda, the co-commissioner of the Northern Territory’s youth detention royal commission, has accused the NT government of backing away from commitments it made after the inquiry.

“You can’t arrest your way out of this,” Mr Gooda said, responding to the government’s latest tough-on-crime crackdown, which targets youth bail.

It has been more than three years since Mr Gooda — and his co-commissioner Margaret White — released their final report, in November 2017.

“We did a lot of…