Shut up and stick to your job, NT chief minister tells 45 paediatricians

It follows criticism of Lia Finocchiaro's plan to sanction the use of spit hoods into youth detention.

The NT Chief Minister has lashed out at 45 paediatricians she accused of “wasting their time” after they warned her plan to reintroduce spit hoods in youth detention risked child asphyxiation.

In a letter sent last month, the doctors said spit hoods, banned nearly 10 years ago following the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the NT, could lead to death or permanent disability.

Spit hood use had been likened to torture and defined as such by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, it said.

“[It has also] been implicated in prisoner deaths interstate.

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