this is very sad and troubling — next week in the NT the age of criminal responsibility will be lowered to 10. carceral thought seeks to degrade the entire world, and in truth does.
It's insane, cruel, and also incredibly racist - a huge proportion are First Nations people. And this is all against a backdrop of the Aus federal government working towards social media bans for children. 10 will be "too young to go on Facebook, but old enough to go to gaol".
All good — the news is so deeply disturbing that a hurried reaction is normal and healthy imo. This reclassification can only do harm on a massive scale
You're right. It's very disheartening, and comes after years of campaigning to raise the age limit in other states. I know this organisation have done some good work around it: https://www.changetherecord.org.au/
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If you want to go down a depressing rabbithole, look up the NT Intervention.