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Samantha Lock and William Ton

NT Police boss 'deeply sorry' to Indigenous community

Michael Murphy (centre) says the NT police force has to own the past and change for the future. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

"We made mistakes" the head of Northern Territory police has told Australia's largest Indigenous gathering, vowing his force needs to be accountable for harm inflicted in the past 150 years.

"I cannot change or undo the past," Commissioner Michael Murphy told those gathered at the Garma Festival at Gulkula, in northeast Arnhem Land, on Saturday.

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