Don Dale Youth Detention Centre

Northern Territory

Children's commissioner ignored on laws targeting kids

A territory government's treatment of children has gone backwards since a damning royal commission r...

Andrew Stafford and Lloyd Jones 29 Apr 2026

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Aboriginal teen denied food during 84-hour Don Dale isolation

The Northern Territory's Child Commissioner has criticised the treatment of an Aboriginal teenager i...

Dechlan Brennan 5 Sep 2025

Children set to leave Don Dale amid jail overcrowding

Children are set to be moved out of Darwin's Don Dale Youth Detention Centre for the final time, as...

(A)manda Parkinson 1 Nov 2024

New Darwin prison holds troubled youth 'in good stead'

Almost eight years after the nation was rocked by images of child inmate in a spithood and restraine...

(A)manda Parkinson 24 Jul 2024

Kids allegedly locked in cells while Don Dale on fire

Children were left calling for help in their locked cells during a riot at the troubled Don Dale You...

(A)manda Parkinson 15 Apr 2024

Northern Territory

Children's commissioner ignored on laws targeting kids

A territory government's treatment of children has gone backwards since a damnin...

Andrew Stafford and Lloyd Jones 29 Apr 2026

News

Aboriginal teen denied food during 84-hour Don Dale isolation

The Northern Territory's Child Commissioner has criticised the treatment of an A...

Dechlan Brennan 5 Sep 2025

Children set to leave Don Dale amid jail overcrowding

Children are set to be moved out of Darwin's Don Dale Youth Detention Centre for...

(A)manda Parkinson 1 Nov 2024

New Darwin prison holds troubled youth 'in good stead'

Almost eight years after the nation was rocked by images of child inmate in a sp...

(A)manda Parkinson 24 Jul 2024

Kids allegedly locked in cells while Don Dale on fire

Children were left calling for help in their locked cells during a riot at the t...

(A)manda Parkinson 15 Apr 2024

Lawyers blame Don Dale riot on 'appalling conditions'

Legal experts have blamed the latest riot at the Northern Territory's notorious Don Dale youth detention centre on failing standards and inadequate care.

Neve Brissenden Apr 4, 2024

NT Supreme Court awards nearly $1 million to Indigenous former Don Dale inmates tear gassed in 2014

The Northern Territory Supreme Court has awarded nearly $1million in damages to four Indigenous former inmates of the notorious Don Dale youth detention centre over an unlawful tear gassing in 2014.

Dechlan Brennan Sep 7, 2023

Inquiry called for youth detainee transfers to Don Dale

The Northern Territory's acting commissioner for children has launched an inquiry into transfers from the Alice Springs youth detention centre to the notorious Don Dale facility.

Rudi Maxwell Jul 13, 2023

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