This report updates the high-level activity and performance expectations of the Royal Commission into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-based Institutions (the Inquiry) for the 2021/2022 year for the quarter ended 30 September 2022.

The Tell Me About You research report provides unique insight into the lives of people with learning disabilities and neurodiversity, in State and faith-based care between 1950 and 1999.

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***Distressing content warning*** Witness Summaries Reverend Tara Tautari At the time of the hearing Reverend Tautari was the General Secretary of the Methodist Church.

***Distressing content warning*** Witness Summaries Bishop Patrick Dunn Bishop Dunn was appointed the Bishop of Auckland in 1994.

A moment in historyThe closing of the Royal Commission's last public hearing was “a moment in history that will never be forgotten”, with tears, laughter, applause and time to remember the survivors who are no longer with us.

***Distressing content warning*** Witness Summaries Howard Temple At the time of the hearing Mr Temple had been the leader of the Gloriavale Community since May 2018 and a member of the Community for over thirty years.