Now Stan Grant has weighed in :(

Beach, from your above post it would appear you do not think this Royal Commission is justified.

"strongly sympathetic to juvenile offenders and very definitely to indigenous." Yes, absolutely, given 3% of juveniles incarcerated in the NT are non indigenous children. That in itself does not point to inherent racism within the MT juvenile justice system. However it does indicate there is a systemic problem with aboriginal youth in relation to crime in the NT.

"According to the courts, these are very dangerous youths" as an apologists for the existing system, I take it you believe that children within the MT juvenile justice have been treated entirely appropriately. Again no need for a Royal Commission.

As for the ABC and its coverage, no doubt you would much prefer this kind of dirty linen remain hidden. That is understandable to those of us who see you as a supporter of a police state, and a key element of such a state is secrecy. Again no need for a Royal Commission.

While this video deals specifically with sexual offenders, is it the sort of juvenile system Australia should be heading towards?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUAljuxNUu0

New facilities cost big dollars.

Paul1405,

Your Straw Men and dismissed as such. Do you even know when you are doing that? Maybe not.

Paul, you are wearing it thin, this you rightists, you rednecks,
everything and anyone right of centre is stupid, criminal etc etc to you.
All you do is detract from your debating points with all that.
You are like Poirot stuck in a rut.

Beach, 'straw man' someone must have run that by you sometime ago, and you have been using the hackneyed term ever since. The fact is given your narrow minded thinking issues of social justice, your attitude can be best summed up as "shoot first and don't ask questions", You certainly would not support this Royal Commission, now would you.

Bazz....yawn. You can't be Mr Moderate, Beach has already claimed that title.

Paul, I am not moderate and don't pretend to be.
I am pretty much right wing but you do go over the top.
I am aware our pollies right & left are pretty hopeless but I do not
put the tags on them that you do on people on one end of the spectrum.
You sound like one of those old time Stalinist red ravers.