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Ethan James

New home for troubled Tas youth centre

A new facility will be built in southern Tasmania to replace the Ashley Youth Detention Centre. (Ethan James/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Tasmania's government plans to build a new youth detention centre in the state's south to replace the current facility which has been the subject of harrowing evidence at a child sexual abuse inquiry.

There have been widespread calls, including from the national children's commissioner and human rights groups, to immediately shut the Ashley Youth Detention Centre.

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