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Tess Ikonomou

Can't keep 'pussyfooting' around youth crime: Labor MP

Marion Scrymgour says all children committing offences shouldn't be treated as "little angels". (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Northern Territory MP Marion Scrymgour says the nation needs to stop "pussyfooting" around the issue of youth crime in Indigenous communities. 

Ms Scrymgour, who holds the seat of Lingiari for Labor, has called for a tough love approach that doesn't treat all children committing offences as "little angels".

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