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The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will release its final report today after adjourning for the last time.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and opposition leader Bill Shorten sat alongside hundreds of survivors, advocates, lawyers and community leaders in the Royal Commission’s Sydney offices yesterday, as chief commissioner Robert McLellan gave the closing address. McLellan said it was “the responsibility of our entire community to acknowledge that children are being abused”, and that “the tragic impact of abuse for individuals and, through them our entire society, demands nothing less”.

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Alex McKinnon, The Saturday Paper