NT Coordinator for the Justice Reform Initiative, Rocket Bretherton, says she fears for those currently caught up in the territory’s justice system.

“It’s only a matter of time.”

Rocket Bretherton has deep subject matter expertise as a consequence of her own experience in the NT justice system and has been working since 2019 to raise public awareness of the failings of the justice system. Source: Emma Kellaway

For years Ms Bretherton has campaigned and advocated for justice reform in the Northern Territory.

“That’s disgusting, we need to be doing better.”

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“It’s not a matter of if, but when a serious custody incident occurs.”

Since coming to power in August last year, the NT Country Liberal Party Government has enacted a string of “tough-on-crime” policies, including the tightening of bail laws.

88 per cent of those incarcerated in the NT are Indigenous.

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“If we don’t do that then there will be no change.”