The Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child says the Northern Territory has contravened Australia's international treaty obligations by lowering the age of criminal responsibility from 12 to 10 years old. Speaking exclusively to ABC News, committee chair Ann Skelton said she was writing to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to inform him of Australia's treaty obligations as a signatory to the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child. The UN has recommended 14 as the minimum age of criminal responsibility worldwide, and 31 member states have previously urged Australia to meet that standard. Currently, the minimum age of criminal responsibility in every Australian state and territory is 10, except for the ACT, which last year raised its age of criminal responsibility to 12. By Lillian Rangiah for ABC News Northern Territory.

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