Terrible crime': Royal Commission's final abuse report makes 189 recommendations

Commissioner Justice Peter McClellan (left) and the Governor-General of Australia Peter Cosgrove.

Commissioner Justice Peter McClellan (left) and the Governor-General of Australia Peter Cosgrove. Source: AAP

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After five years, $500 million and 444 public sitting days, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has handed down its final report.

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