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NT independent politician Yingiya Guyula wants to see elders given authority to help offenders heal

Mulka MLA and Indigenous elder Yingiya Guyula says community elders can play a role disciplining offenders on country. (ABC News: Hamish Harty)

In the Northern Territory, where prisons are overflowing and rates of violent crime have reached despairing highs, one elder believes the answers to these urgent challenges lie out in the territory bush.

Violent assaults are at their highest rates in at least 15 years in the territory, and prisons in Darwin and Alice Springs are seeing their highest ever populations – 85 per cent of which are Aboriginal.

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