[4] Graphic footage of repeated abuse of children at Don Dale Juvenile Detention Centre and in Alice Springs was featured in ABC's Four Corners episode "Australia's Shame", which aired on 25 July 2016.

[5] The program also showed a 17-year-old boy shackled and hooded in a chair in Alice Springs (adult) correctional centre.

[7] Following national outrage, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced a Royal Commission into Juvenile Detention in the Northern Territory.

[8] John Elferink was sacked as Corrections Minister the morning after the program aired.

The corrections and justice portfolios were taken on by Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles.