Years after the NT royal commission into youth detention, why has Don Dale not yet been replaced?

More than five years after a royal commission recommended Darwin's notorious Don Dale Youth Detention Centre be closed, the facility is still in use. Five years since youth detention royal commission Photo shows Commissioners Mick Gooda and Margaret White as seen through the bars of Don Dale When the findings of the royal commission sparked by Four Corner's Don Dale expose were handed down in 2017, the then Northern Territory chief minister said they would "live as a stain" on its history. At the time, Territory Families Minister Kate Worden said the scale of constructing a new youth justice facility with a therapeutic focus was "a very big part" of implementing the royal commission's findings. Ms Worden now says the new youth justice facility will open in "early 2024" — nearly two years later than first billed.