MALCOLM TURNBULL

Australia prime minister will make national apology to sex abuse victims

The national apology to child sex abuse victims is part of the government’s response to a long-running probe that heard allegations against government and private institutions and prominent individuals in five years of hearings

2 The apology will be delivered on October 22, it was announced as Turnbull outlined his government’s formal reaction to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

3 The inquiry ended in December after taking evidence from leaders such as Vatican Cardinal George Pell, who is charged with committing abuses himself and was accused of failing to protect children.