A coalition of peak Aboriginal organisations in the Northern Territory has issued a statement to prime minister Malcolm Turnbull urging him to conduct the royal commission into juvenile detention "with us, not to us" and demanding that the NT government be sacked.
"We write to urge you to ensure that Aboriginal people and organisations are fully engaged in the process and that it is one that is entirely independent of the Northern Territory Government," the letter reads.
The letter is co-signed by the heads of the NT's top Indigenous legal services, land council and health service.
It comes after shocking footage of Aboriginal children being subjected to brutal treatment in the Don Dale juvenile detention centre outside of Darwin was aired on the ABC's Four Corners program on Monday night.
The NT chief minister Adam Giles claims that he was unaware of what was happening at the centre and stripped the NT minister for corrections, John Elferink, of his portfolio.
The organisations refute Giles' claim of a cite a public report delivered to the NT government last year on the tear gassing of six Aboriginal teens at the centre in 2014.
"We call on the federal Parliament to dismiss the Northern Territory Government. We do not make this call lightly but any government that enacts policies designed to harm children and enables a culture of brutalisation and cover-ups, surrenders its right to govern."
"We can have no confidence in the Northern Territory Government, given not only their protracted inaction in relation to the matters raised, but also the manner in which the public has been actively misled in relation to events," the letter reads.
The royal commission will be jointly run by the federal and NT governments and Giles has said that it could begin in September, with findings to be delivered in early 2017.