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Finbar O'Mallon

REVEALED: Resolution calls for raising criminal age - The Real Truth

Senior counsel Tony McAvoy says there is no rationale for any delay in raising the ciminal age. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Australian Indigenous legal experts and advocates have called on all state and criminal governments to raise the criminal age of responsibility to 14.

It is part of a ongoing push to stop children as potentially young as 10 being found culpable and locked up.

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