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<\/a>ABC News 24 – “You don’t know what you don’t know”: Nigel Scullion on Don Dale abuses.<\/p><\/div>\n
The shocking footage of teenagers being bound, tear gassed and thrown across prison cells in the Northern Territory’s Don Dale youth detention centre has appalled the nation. Despite multiple media reports over the years, none of the chief echelons at federal or territory level\u00a0appear to have\u00a0been aware.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, NT Coalition Senator Nigel\u00a0Scullion told the media that he was unaware of the recordings of inmates being abused prior to the screening by Four Corners on Monday night.<\/a><\/p>\n ABC News 24 – “You don’t know what you don’t know”: Nigel Scullion on Don Dale abuses.<\/p><\/div>\n “I haven’t seen the footage,” he told the media.<\/a><\/p>\n “I hadn’t actually seen the program last night. I was on the way home and from a family of a staff member and I was having dinner so we didn’t watch it and the PM rang me, fairly agitated, and said, “have you seen it?”. I said, “no mate.” He said, “well you better go home and see\u00a0\u00a0it. Give me a ring.” So when I did go home and see\u00a0it, it was, it was, just shocked me to the core.”<\/p>\n “The last time, just for clarity, I can recall back in October, vaguely last year, there was some commentary in the media about this but it was all about this has been taken care of, there’s another investigation and we’re adopting recommendations and that sort of thing, and I made an assumption that, we all need to be careful about assumptions, I assumed that the Northern Territory Government were taking care of this matter and I didn’t take any further action in that.”<\/p>\n In response to questions about ever having been given a briefing from the NT Government he responded with, “You don’t know what you don’t know.”<\/p>\n Later in the press conference, Mr Scullion stated that, “I wish I’d known what I know today or I knew yesterday afternoon, some time ago. But the facts of the matter were, I didn’t know. I’d never seen the vision. It hadn’t come to my attention. It hadn’t piqued my interest or sufficiently.”<\/p>\n However in a series of Tweets,\u00a0Caro Meldrum-Hanna<\/a>, the ABC journalist\u00a0featured in the Four Corners program, reacted vehemently to Mr Scullion’s dinner engagement excuse for not viewing the footage. She confirmed\u00a0that she had spoken to his office at around 1pm before the footage was aired.<\/p>\n “THIS STINKS: Scullion’s office asked me for an advanced copy of the #4Corners program yesterday. He went out to dinner instead of watching?” she wrote.<\/p>\n Ms Meldrum-Hanna later Tweeted that she had subsequently been contacted by Mr Scullion’s office and that,\u00a0“the Minister was at dinner for “private sensitive matter involving one of my staff & family.”<\/p>\n Minister Scullion says he didn't watch #4Corners<\/a> until @TurnbullMalcolm<\/a> alerted him? I spoke with his office at around 1pm yesterday. ????????????<\/p>\n — Caro Meldrum-Hanna (@caromeldrum) July 26, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"ABC](\"https:\/\/qldaah.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/nigelpique1.jpg?resize=190%2C106\")
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