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House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs

26 March 2026

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The Chair opens the inquiry, sets out its remit on domestic, family and sexual violence and suicide, witnesses introduce themselves, and the committee immediately focuses on key national data gaps and mortality coding constraints for understanding DFV-related suicidality.

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Hearing opening — mandate and national data gaps

01:21:33

Opening of hearing and departmental witness introductions

01:21:33

Joint departmental opening statement — data gaps and national plan

01:24:10

Committee introductions and framing of key data gap question

01:26:02

DSS and Health: national data gaps and mortality coding constraints

01:27:25

Service responses and PHN pilots on DFV‑related suicidality

01:31:14

Are programs explicitly addressing suicidality within FDV responses?

01:31:14

Primary Health Network pilots for FDV-related mental health support

01:34:06

Training content and uptake among GPs and allied health

01:39:43

Scaling PHN pilots and national coverage considerations

01:43:21

Diversity and children in risk assessment; pilots and perpetrators

02:08:57

Pilots versus systemic programs and scaling from evidence

02:34:40

Legal, policy and data frameworks — risk, diversity and service navigation

01:44:34

Attorney-General’s: national legal harmonisation and death review limits

01:44:34

Defining DFV-related suicides and national risk assessment framework

01:48:10

Workforce capability, national training and DSS data exchange (DEX)

01:53:49

First Nations, CALD and disability communities — data and trust issues

01:58:43

Impact of better DFV–suicide data and suicide prevention governance

02:12:36

Information sharing, privacy, and intervention thresholds

02:25:55

Services for sexual violence and child sexual abuse survivors

02:39:24

Service navigation and ‘no wrong door’ principle

02:42:50

ABS evidence — coronial data, ICD transition and multi‑source linkage

02:50:01

ABS witnesses: opening and scope of suicide statistics

02:50:01

Coronial narratives, coding practice and childhood abuse data

02:55:19

State suicide registers and cultural/community reporting barriers

03:00:48

Transition to ICD-11 and national coding quality framework

03:03:49

Limits of current datasets and need for multi-source linkage

03:06:44

ABS surveys, perpetrator–victim patterns and research potential

03:14:18

Time since abuse, clustering of risk factors and research potential

03:14:18

Personal Safety Survey design, coverage and DFV content

03:16:52

Suicide among perpetrators versus victims and multiple risk factors

03:21:16

Closing remarks and support service signposting

03:26:55

House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs

26 March 2026

House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs Fri, 27 Mar 2026 Australian Parliament

01:21:33 - 01:22:42

Speaker 2

Clear the... I declare open the public hearing of the standing committee on social policy and legal affairs inquiry into relationship between domestic family and sexual violence, victimization, and suicide. I'd like to acknowledge the custodians of the country in which we meet in today, which here in Canberra is the Ngunnawal and Ngunnawal, but we do have my committee from all over the place. They can introduce themselves in a minute. I pay respects to ancestors and elders past, present, and emerging, and I extend this respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their cultural and spiritual connections to Australia's lands and waters.

This hearing will be broadcast and the transcript of proceedings will be published on the Parliament's website. I now welcome representatives of the Department of Social Services, the Attorney General's Department, Department of Health, Disability and Aging, National Indigenous Australians Agency, and the Office of Women to give evidence together. For the Hansard record, could you please state your full names and the capacity in which you are appearing before the committee? Perhaps we'll start online, and then I'll...

01:22:42 - 01:22:43

I don't know if

01:22:43 - 01:22:47

Speaker 2

you can work it yourselves. Miss McKenzie online.

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