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Child sexual abuse survivors receive formal apology from Tasmanian government in parliament

Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff and others have delivered a historic apology from parliament to victim-survivors of child sexual abuse in state institutions, almost two years to the day since the government announced an investigation into the allegations.

Over the past two years, a commission of inquiry has heard a litany of harrowing evidence from people abused as children in various settings including hospitals, schools and detention centres.

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