Malcolm Turnbull to keep Northern Territory involved in royal commission

By Mark Kenny
Updated July 29 2016 - 12:09am, first published July 27 2016 - 8:06pm
Malcolm Turnbull insists on shared administration for the upcoming royal commission into human rights abuses in the Northern Territory. Photo: Mark Graham
Malcolm Turnbull insists on shared administration for the upcoming royal commission into human rights abuses in the Northern Territory. Photo: Mark Graham
WA premier Colin Barnett has attacked the Giles government in the Northern Territory, branding it incompetent. Photo: Philip Gostelow
WA premier Colin Barnett has attacked the Giles government in the Northern Territory, branding it incompetent. Photo: Philip Gostelow

The Turnbull government is standing by the increasingly embattled Giles government in the Northern Territory and will resist calls to exclude it from joint stewardship of its royal commission inquiry into human rights abuses within the territory's youth justice system.

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