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Tim Dornin

New NT laws to allow detention oversight

Inspectors will be able to go into NT detention centres to investigate torture allegations. (Glenn Campbell/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Inspectors to help prevent torture and other cruel and degrading treatment in detention centres will get unfettered access to facilities across the Northern Territory.

The NT parliament has passed legislation that provides for a formal oversight agency known as the National Preventative Mechanism and the appointment of inspectors to examine and monitor places of detention.

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