Didn't know, didn't ask: Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion's startling admission

By Mark Kenny Chief Political Correspondent
Updated July 27 2016 - 9:48am, first published 8:27am
Dylan Voller being manhandled by staff at the Darwin facility. Photo: ABC Four Corners
Dylan Voller being manhandled by staff at the Darwin facility. Photo: ABC Four Corners
A youth is left in solitary confinement in the ABC footage. Photo: ABC Four Corners
A youth is left in solitary confinement in the ABC footage. Photo: ABC Four Corners
Dylan Voller is hooded and strapped to a restraining chair in the footage aired on Four Corners. Photo: ABC Four Corners
Dylan Voller is hooded and strapped to a restraining chair in the footage aired on Four Corners. Photo: ABC Four Corners

Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion believed a culture of brutality and its cover-up in Northern Territory's juvenile detention facilities had been fixed, revealing he did not intervene because he had not seen any CCTV vision and the issue had not "piqued" his interest.

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