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The Briefing … The Royal Commission …
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The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will hold its final sitting today, marking the end of the five-year inquiry.
Since it was set up by former prime minister Julia Gillard in 2012, the commission has heard from more than 8000 survivors of sexual abuse, as well as more than 1300 academics, lawyers, advocates, public servants and community groups. Commission chair Peter McLennan will present Message to Australia, a 1000-page book with collections of testimony from survivors who shared their stories with the commission, to the National Library of Australia before becoming publicly available …
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Alex McKinnon, The Saturday Paper