Today in Andrew Bolts blog he mentioned a royal Commission in the NT that did not know anything about aboriginal underage marriages or male genital mutilation.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/shooting-the-messenger-on-aboriginal-child-abuse/news-story/6028a8ce6ca422e481368e9ad9a1900f

Below is a story from the Aus in 2014

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/legal-affairs/underage-marriage-in-remote-areas-rife/news-story/9e65f90153f73789d7d2480c37cff71c

Below is an article on sub-incision of males.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_subincision

There are other article available for those prepared to google.

The question must be asked is why the RC is not aware of these happenings or are they simply in denial.

Soon there may be a referendum held in which we will be asked to give aboriginals more say in their affairs or even on self government.

If they cover up these type of things and the rate of child abuse generally, it makes me doubt if they are capable of handling any responsibility.

It doesn't say much for Royal Commissions and the people running them, does it? But most things in Australia now seem to operate on knee-jerking and ideology, not on facts or reality.

Changing our Constitution at the behest of these minority ideologues would not help the woman and children being abused, and it would just be another step toward the self-destruction of Australia.

ttbn,
It certainly does not say much for the NT government or the people running the Royal commission.

Here is another article about child abuse written in 2007

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/a-long-tradition-of-abuse/news-story/74a11f05cbffcb09a9f97d9408bb25ce

Makes me wonder what information a computer literate person could come up with on child abuse in the NT.

Banjo,

The links don't open.
First, here is a news article from when the RC was being established,
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-12/gillard-launches-royal-commission-into-child-abuse/4367364

Secondly, from Google, is this the issue?
http://www.jimball.com.au/blog/shocking-shooting-messenger-aboriginal-child-abuse-andrew-bolt/

"This Is Shocking — Shooting The Messenger On Aboriginal Child Abuse — Andrew Bolt
by Jim Ball | Jun 29, 2017 | Blog, Child abuse inquiry, Indigenous |
This is shocking.

I heard this exchange on radio yesterday with the snippy, snarling, salivating pit-bull lawyer for the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Association trying to badger and savage John Elferink the former Child Protection Commissioner when he was giving his evidence at the Royal Commission.

They just didn’t want to hear it. They didn’t want to know.

Their misguided protection racket of cultural practices (genital mutilation and child marriage) that we would demonise in Islam or child sexual abuse in the Catholic church, was as blatant as it was ugly. The video of the proceedings are even worse.
It is the stuff of the Spanish Inquisition.

“…It is disgraceful that lawyers for Aboriginal groups and a royal commission yesterday savaged former NT Child Protection Minister John Elferink for warning of the genital mutilation of Aboriginal boys and forced marriages of Aboriginal children.
But he was challenged over his motives for raising the issues, with counsel for the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Association Peggy Dwyer accusing him of trying to demonise Aboriginal communities.
‘You are prepared to make a statement to this Royal Commission that has the effect of demonising an Aboriginal cultural practice, correct?’ she asked…
This is astonishing. Haven’t we just gone through years of attacking Catholic bishops for not believing or heeding warnings of child abuse in their ranks?
Why were they angry when someone tried to protect children from barbaric customs? Shooting The Messenger On Aboriginal Child Abuse"

leoj,
The first link opened for me (twice)
The second link looks like it is protected by a paywall, but it originally opened for me, so I'll try it again

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/a-long-tradition-of-abuse/news-story/74a11f05cbffcb09a9f97d9408bb25ce

Here again is the third link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_subincision

I think either Turnbull or the NT government set up the RC after that tv episode about kids in detention centres.

leoj.
Don't know why the third link is not showing up in red. TRy goog;pmg penile subincision--Wikipedia.