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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Karen Middleton

NT government denies that planned crime reforms are form of ‘racial control’

NT chief minister Lia Finocchiaro
NT chief minister Lia Finocchiaro said voters gave her government a mandate to act on crime. Photograph: (a)manda Parkinson/AAP

The former Northern Territory Labor attorney general Chansey Paech has accused the new Country Liberal party government of planning to introduce a set of tough law-and-order measures as a form of “racial control” aimed at Indigenous people.

Ahead of the first sitting of the reconfigured NT parliament since the election wiped out the Labor government, Paech has launched a broadside at the new government’s legislative agenda in an interview with Guardian Australia’s Australian Politics podcast.

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