A proposal to tackle crime rates in the Northern Territory brought forward by the Country Liberal Party (CLP) has been slammed by Indigenous leaders as “ignorant”, “dystopian” and a “continuation of the genocide” of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island children in the territory.
Per the NT Independent, the proposal was floated to the CLP by a party member known only as Geoff. It suggested using fly-in-fly-out contractors from Singapore to work as “hooded cane masters” in the territory and dish out corporal punishments to anyone sentenced to a year or under for crimes committed.
