The new government threw barbs at “do-gooders down south”, accused former chief ministers of gaslighting Territorians, and one MP even used the term “intergenerational trauma” to refer to the impact on his young daughters of seeing a fight at a market.
But amid the bombast in the Northern Territory parliament this week was something else: a fundamental disagreement about whether lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 10 would make the community safer.
