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Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade

25 March 2026

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The chair opens the Foreign Affairs and Aid Subcommittee hearing, manages procedural matters, and ACFID presents its overarching case for conflict prevention as a core, cost‑effective pillar of Australian foreign policy and aid, setting out NGOs’ roles and flagging legal concerns such as the lack of a humanitarian exemption.

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Hearing opening and ACFID policy framing

22:15

Hearing opening and witness introductions

22:15

ACFID opening statement — NGOs in conflict prevention

23:53

Whole-of-government conflict prevention and DFAT capacity

27:42

Five recommendations for a whole-of-government approach

27:42

Q — Chair: effectiveness of current conflict architecture

30:43

DFAT restructuring, decentralisation and risk aversion

41:06

Civil society, early warning and Indo-Pacific conflict risks

45:59

Q — Deputy Chair: returns on NGO investment vs defence

45:59

Q — Neumann: anticipating Indo-Pacific conflict through early warning

52:56

Q — Neumann and Collins: engaging communities and gendered drivers

56:41

Women, Peace and Security, arms exports and humanitarian exemptions

01:02:16

Women, Peace and Security leadership and militarisation risks

01:02:16

Global anti-gender backlash and humanitarian exemption reform

01:06:52

Chair’s procedural close and follow‑up deadlines

01:10:43

Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade

25 March 2026

Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Thu, 26 Mar 2026 Australian Parliament

22:14 - 23:04

Speaker 38

Foreign Affairs and Aid Subcommittee, of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade for the inquiry into the role of Australia's international development program in preventing conflict. Would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners land in which we... Each of us is calling in from today. I'd like to pay my respects to elders past and present and also acknowledge the cultures of any aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples present with us here today. This hearing will be broadcast on the parliament's website, and proof and official transcripts of the proceedings will be published on the committee's web page.

I now welcome representatives from the Australian Council for International Development and member organizations who contributed to the ACTFRED submission to give evidence today. For the HENSAD record, would you please state your name and the capacity that you're joining us here today?

23:04 - 23:11

Speaker 22

Yeah. Thank you very much. I'm Matthew Mori. I'm the CEO for the Australian Council for International Development. Thank you.

23:11 - 23:17

Speaker 13

I'm Imogen Harper, the policy and partnerships lead for the international... For the Australian Council for International Development.

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