House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs - Sydney, NSW (part 2 of 2)
14 April 2026
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House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs Australian Parliament
00:00 - 02:14
Speaker 2
We... We're meeting you where you're at, but we see a better future for you. And one of our challenges is that our response to domestic violence has been pretty crisis driven because of the risk of homicide, the risk of homelessness, so that important immediate response to women and kids to keep them alive and off the street. Over the last couple of years, certainly at a Commonwealth level, increasing leadership around women and children's right to recover their mental health after violence, and that that is a human right. You have the right to the restoration of health.
So we're seeing, I think, that turn in domestic violence policy. The mental health sector, like all sectors, is very complicated, a long embedded history itself, and a lot of medical practitioners have not necessarily been trained around violence and abuse. They've received health training. They've received medical training. And so there is, I think, more work for us to do to be making sure that when people are entering into the mental health system, is that the right place for them?
They may actually have psychosocial concerns, and a lot of survivors of abuse and trauma are not psychologically ill per se, but they're experiencing a broad array of psychosocial challenges that don't necessarily need clinical treatment, but they do need support. We've seen really good models of care here in New South Wales. The New South Wales women's sector has done a really interesting job of comprehensive interdisciplinary services that people feel really comfortable entering into, where psychological needs, physical health needs, parenting needs can all be addressed at once or in a more kind of holistic way. I'm not sure that we've seen the evolution of similar services for for men who... Also men seek help less and and attend health care services less, And also men's response to trauma, especially from early childhood, is somewhat different and can include more aggression, more violence that makes it harder to support them in a service context.
02:15 - 02:26
Speaker 51
In terms of that good model that you've seen, is there a service you can name that we should say this is is a model that is worth looking at?
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