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CLP members back 'school farms' policy idea for troubled young people as 'last chance opportunity' to avoid youth detention

Under the proposed policy, children would operate farm machinery and assist in the operation of slaughterhouses. (Supplied: Pixabay/Fifaliana-joy)

Members of the Northern Territory's main opposition, the Country Liberal Party, have voted to establish two "school farms" if they win the next election, where troubled children would be sent to milk cows and work in a slaughterhouse.

The ABC can reveal the rank-and-file members of the party carried the motion at the last Central Council in February, at the same meeting where they also backed the 'No' campaign of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. 

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