Sexual abuse of children still continuing in institutions, royal commission head warns

The chair of Australia’s child sexual abuse royal commission, Justice Peter McClellan, has delivered his final address before a room of hundreds of survivors and advocates, telling them: “The sexual abuse of children is not just a problem of the past.” ‘It was us against everyone’: how abuse survivors will keep pushing for change The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull and the opposition leader, Bill Shorten, attended to hear McClellan’s final address as commission chair. The Labor MP Jenny Macklin also attended. Survivors held signs and wore badges that read: “Thank you royal commission.”

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