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Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade

6 May 2026

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The subcommittee opens its hearing on Australia’s development and conflict‑prevention agenda, then Defence and AFP outline the National Defence Strategy, Defence Cooperation Program and offshore policing footprint, with emphasis on Pacific security partnerships and regional stability roles.

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Opening and Defence/AFP strategic overviews

15:38

Opening formalities and Defence/AFP witness introductions

15:38

Defence: National Defence Strategy and Defence Cooperation Program

18:41

AFP: offshore policing footprint and Pacific initiatives

21:23

Government Q&A on conflict prevention frameworks and practice

22:19

Chair Q&A: conflict sensitivity and whole‑of‑government coordination

22:19

Chair follow‑up: absence of an explicit conflict prevention framework

27:00

DFAT conflict prevention branch and lead-agency arrangements

32:37

Deputy Chair: measuring conflict prevention outcomes and funding balance

39:24

Newman: Women, Peace and Security agenda in practice

49:28

Focus regions, TESOC, flexible funding and lessons learned

57:11

Principles guiding program design for conflict prevention

01:08:14

Pacific case studies and whole‑of‑government coordination

01:13:11

Senator Collins: Kiribati MOU, Solomon Islands policing package, PNGDF unrest

01:13:11

PNG case study: managing agency trade‑offs and ‘Team Australia’ coordination

01:19:13

NGO and union perspectives on locally led conflict prevention

01:25:54

NGO panel openings: unions, implementation risk and unarmed protection

01:25:54

Coordination architecture and community early warning systems

01:36:52

Trade unions in conflict prevention and humanitarian sanctions exemptions

01:43:05

Support costs, locally led IDP/refugee work, and measuring prevention

01:54:10

Fragility, early warning, trade unions and impacts of US aid cuts

02:03:50

Academic evidence on fragility, PNG aid and DFAT capability

02:45:20

Devpolicy opening statements: focus countries, evidence and PNG aid effectiveness

02:45:20

DFAT conflict capability, branch vs in‑country expertise and coordination

03:00:38

Research-to-policy transfer and when aid worsens fragility

03:14:01

Dedicated fragility research, defining state fragility and PNG program assessment

03:25:11

Integrating external research into DFAT and non‑mainstreamed conflict prevention

03:42:25

UNDP–Australia cooperation, donor politics and funding pressures

03:47:30

UNDP opening and Bangladesh electoral support (BALLOT) case study

03:47:30

UNDP–Australia cooperation in PNG Highlands, climate security and misinformation

03:59:01

Donor interests, China’s role and safeguarding SDG‑aligned development

04:13:39

US aid cuts, multilateral funding squeeze and UNDP’s adaptation strategy

04:23:13

Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade

6 May 2026

Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Thu, 7 May 2026 Australian Parliament

15:38 - 16:39

Speaker 10

This public hearing of the Foreign Affairs and Aid Subcommittee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade for the inquiry into the role of of Australia's International Development Program in preventing conflict. I'd like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners, the land on which each of us is joining from today. I'd like to pay my respects to elders past and present, and I 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 the proof, and official transcripts of the proceedings will be published on the subcommittee's webpage. 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 invite, members of the subcommittee present today, to introduce themselves, as this is a virtual hearing.

16:41 - 16:47

Speaker 73

I'm Shane Newman, federal member for Blair, labor MP based in Southeast Queensland around Ipswich.

16:49 - 16:52

Speaker 58

I'm Leon O'Bello, the federal member for Macpherson.

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