AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
October 21, 2018
By Katharine Murphy
More than 1,000 people expected for apology following royal commission’s horrific findings
Scott Morrison will commit to a new museum to raise awareness and understanding of the impacts of child sexual abuse as the centrepiece of what will be an emotional national apology to the survivors of institutional abuse in federal parliament on Monday.
More than 1,000 people are expected to be in Canberra for the apology, a symbolic gesture that follows the horrific findings of the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse. Julia Gillard, the prime minister who set the royal commission in train, is expected to attend.
The prime minister will commit in Monday’s speech to a museum that will be a place of remembrance and reflection, as well as a place cataloguing the events leading up to the royal commission and the national apology, with the scope of the project to be worked out in consultation with survivors.
Morrison will also commit to reporting to parliament each year for the next five years on the progress being made implementing the recommendations of the royal commission.
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