The Four Corners programme showed footage of teenage offenders stripped naked, assaulted and tear gassed. One of the boys was hooded and cuffed to a mechanical restraint chair wearing a “spit hood”. The Northern Territory’s Attorney General John Elferink has been stripped of his corrections portfolio. The report raised questions about an institutionalised culture of abuse at corrections centres in the Northern Territory, an administrative district that covers a large part of Australia’s north.
