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Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade - Melbourne, VIC (part 1 of 2)

4 May 2026

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The Subcommittee opens its human rights and security hearing with ARC Centre witnesses establishing empirical links between gender inequality, violence against women, violent extremism and national and regional security, followed by member Q&A on women’s leadership, crises, extremism, and the role of security institutions and the WPS National Action Plan.

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Hearing opening and ARC evidence on gendered security risks

15:35

Hearing opening and ARC Centre framing on gender and security

15:35

Hearing opening and ARC Centre witnesses introduced

15:35

ARC Centre — gender equality as security and economic infrastructure

18:26

Targeting of women leaders in the Indo‑Pacific

22:03

ARC Centre Q&A — women’s leadership, crises, extremism and security institutions

25:17

Support for women’s leadership and lessons from Afghanistan quotas

25:17

Women in crises, local leadership and faith‑based actors

35:10

Gender norms and violent extremism — evidence and Taliban case

45:11

Supporting women leaders and feminist civil society in the region

52:44

Shifting the Power Coalition and women’s disaster leadership

56:18

National security initiatives, militaries and gender inequality

58:52

Session close with ARC Centre of Excellence panel

01:05:05

Technology, STEM workforce and online gender‑based violence

01:10:00

Women for STEM / AFK — gender, STEM pipeline and workplace barriers

01:10:00

Women for STEM & AFK — tech, gender and security context

01:10:00

International comparisons and early‑pipeline barriers in STEM

01:14:01

Preconditions for girls’ STEM participation and learning environment

01:16:37

Structural barriers to women’s progression in STEM workplaces

01:36:15

Close of Women for STEM / AFK session

01:42:06

Tech‑facilitated gender‑based violence and human‑rights‑based tech governance

01:20:58

Technology‑facilitated gender‑based violence in Australia and Indo‑Pacific

01:20:58

Regulation at human speed vs tech speed — safety by design

01:24:10

Emerging technologies as primary drivers of gendered harm

01:31:42

Security institutions, gender mainstreaming and crisis operations

02:02:00

WIIS Australia — gender mainstreaming, backlash and intersectionality in security

02:02:00

Women in International Security Australia — mandate and message

02:02:00

Backlash and rising misogyny in Australia’s security context

02:09:00

Defence strategy, mainstreaming gender and implementation gaps

02:12:43

Public messaging, recruitment and embedding WPS domestically

02:16:32

Resilience of gender gains and internal resistance, including among women

02:18:29

Intersectionality, race and the ‘bamboo ceiling’ in security

02:24:56

Manosphere, social media and funding research on gendered extremism

02:27:37

Advancing intersectional leadership and Australia’s image abroad

02:30:19

RedR Australia — gender, crisis operations and engaging armed actors

02:36:43

RedR Australia — opening on gender and crisis

02:36:43

What works to improve gender equality — listening and local agency

02:39:16

Early warning signs and positive indicators in fragile societies

02:42:45

Beyond victimhood: women’s roles and Australia’s contributions

02:47:59

Gender advisers, Cox’s Bazar and security‑sector culture

02:51:59

Engaging armed actors and masculinities under stress

02:58:31

Gender, climate and economic security in Indo‑Pacific aid

03:45:17

Alinea & Humanitarian Advisory Group — gender, climate risk, localisation and cyber WPS

03:45:17

Alinea & Humanitarian Advisory Group — gender, climate and backlash

03:45:17

Australia’s comparative advantage and locally defined reform pathways

03:47:25

Humanitarian Advisory Group — gender as threat multiplier

03:51:13

Optimism, localisation and community‑led resilience under pressure

04:00:12

Australia’s gender leadership in infrastructure and conditionality

04:06:12

DFAT performance, gender‑washing risks and civil society roles

04:11:59

Backlash, manosphere and coordinated anti‑rights campaigns

04:18:24

Cyber diplomacy, WPS and whole‑of‑society cyber capacity

04:27:42

Plan International — adolescent girls, WPS prevention and child marriage

04:34:30

Plan International — adolescent girls and security

04:34:30

Program evidence: adolescent girls in crisis and girls’ leadership

04:38:38

Optimism, triple dividend and adolescent data gaps

04:42:42

Using WPS as prevention and embedding an adolescent lens

04:47:15

Drivers of girls’ school drop‑out and climate impacts

04:53:55

Scaling child marriage prevention and integrated systems change

04:57:49

Targets for gender‑transformative aid and food security via ADI

05:00:16

Technology, markets and online exploitation risks for girls

05:06:23

World Vision, CARE & ActionAid — aid, gender equality and economic insecurity

05:31:24

World Vision, CARE & ActionAid — joint framing on gender and security

05:31:24

CARE — gender inequality as structural driver of conflict and instability

05:38:32

ActionAid — backlash, militarisation and resourcing women’s movements

05:41:44

Faith leaders, Channels of Hope and safeguarding in practice

05:42:39

Making the case for aid to Australian taxpayers

05:49:48

Trade shocks, macro‑instability and gendered impacts

05:56:38

Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade - Melbourne, VIC (part 1 of 2)

4 May 2026

Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Tue, 5 May 2026 Australian Parliament

15:34 - 16:35

Speaker 13

Well, good morning, everybody. It being 09:30, I'm going to get this inquiry hearing underway. I declare open this public hearing of the Human Rights Subcommittee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade in relation to its inquiry into gender equality as a national security and economic security imperative. I begin by acknowledging the Traditional Owners of the land on which we meet today. I pay my respects to elders past and present.

This hearing will be broadcast on the parliament's website, and the proof and official transcripts of the proceedings will be published on the committee's website. I remind members of the media who may be present or listening on the web of the need to fairly and accurately report the proceedings of the subcommittee. I now welcome representatives from the ARC Center for Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women to give evidence today. For the Hansard record, would you please state your names and the capacity in which you appear before the Human Rights Subcommittee? So who would like to go

16:35 - 16:45

Speaker 6

first? Professor sorry. Professor Jackie True from CIVOR.

16:46 - 16:50

Speaker 3

Raffat Mahmoud from I'm a research fellow at SIVO. Yep.

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