The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has thanked the royal commission for its work and has commended the courage of survivors involved in the inquiry.

The head of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse says survivors who shared their stories have helped the inquiry identify what should be done to make Australian institutions safer in the future. Chair Justice Peter McClellan has told a final sitting of the five-year inquiry in Sydney, their personal stories have had a profound impact on the commissioners.

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