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House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs - Melbourne, VIC (part 1 of 2)

18 June 2026

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The chair opens the inquiry into links between domestic, family and sexual violence and suicide, manages procedural matters and introduces the Alcohol and Drug Foundation, whose CEO sets out core evidence on how alcohol and other drugs intersect with suicide and violence and why prevention‑oriented AOD policy must be embedded in whole‑of‑government DFV and suicide strategies.

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Hearing opening and Alcohol and Drug Foundation evidence

15:33

Hearing opening and Alcohol and Drug Foundation introduced

15:33

Alcohol and Drug Foundation — opening evidence on AOD, violence and suicide

17:39

ADF Q&A — risk cohorts, service gaps, alcohol policy and AI tools

20:21

Chair Q&A — risk trajectories and early intervention age cohorts

20:21

Service integration gaps and AI tools in AOD support

25:43

Alcohol availability, DFV risk and policy levers

30:35

Mental health–AOD co‑treatment, workforce and unregulated rehab

34:38

Drug types, cohort risk and data needs; DIB design and insights

37:12

DIB referrals, real‑time data and handling of self‑harm disclosures

53:38

Professor Douglas — DFV‑linked suicides, coercive control and coronial practice

01:00:57

Procedural close and acceptance of Alcohol harm exhibit; transition to Professor Douglas

01:00:57

Heather Douglas — opening on suicides, DFV and investigative reform

01:04:11

Joanna’s Law (California) and improving police/coroners’ practice

01:08:39

Coercive control, homicide/manslaughter and judicial education

01:12:21

Coronial practice, DFV recognition and national guidance

01:21:03

Professor O’Connor — migrant women, dowry abuse and visa gaps

01:58:19

Professor O’Connor — migrant women, visas and misidentification

01:58:19

Dowry abuse, community factors and culturally informed suicide risk

02:23:00

Visa policy, ‘domestic violence visas’ and abandoned brides offshore

02:31:55

RACS — asylum seekers, DFV, sexual violence and service barriers

02:43:50

Refugee Advice and Casework Service — asylum seekers, DFV and suicidality

02:43:50

Service access barriers, interpreters, child protection and trauma‑informed practice

02:54:37

Family‑violence provisions, settlement supports and high sexual‑violence prevalence

03:05:25

Dr Fogarty — longitudinal IPV impacts and health‑service responses

04:34:14

Dr Fogarty — longitudinal study on IPV, mothers’ and children’s mental health

04:34:14

Data limitations, health‑service responses and need for child‑focused therapy

04:39:17

Screening, perinatal settings and treating children as primary victims

04:48:51

Safety technologies and perpetrator programs — Change for Sam and MELI

05:13:53

Change for Sam — personal safety devices as suicide‑relevant safety infrastructure

05:13:53

Change for Sam Q&A — activation, monitoring protocols and funding

05:29:00

MELI family‑violence programs — perpetrators, victims and mental health

05:47:06

House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs - Melbourne, VIC (part 1 of 2)

18 June 2026

House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs Fri, 19 Jun 2026 Australian Parliament

15:33 - 16:15

Speaker 30

Claire opened the public hearings of standing the committee on social policy and legal affairs inquiry into the relationship between domestic family and sexual violence and suicide. I'd like to acknowledge the traditional and original owners of this land, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and the Bunurong peoples, and pay respect to those who passed before us and to acknowledge today's Victorian Aboriginal people who are custodians of the land. I extend this respect to all Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander peoples and their cultural and spiritual connections to Australia's land and waters. This hearing will be broadcast, and the transcript of proceedings will be published on the parliament's website. For those in person or listening online, please be advised that this hearing may contain evidence that could cause distress.

16:15 - 16:46

Speaker 3

If anything you hear today upsets you or causes distress, please reach out to 180013 helpline or other support services. There is also a parliamentary workplace support service and employee assistance program for broadcasting Hansard and the committee secretariat and the committee and its member staff. I now welcome representatives of the Alcohol and Drug Foundation to give evidence. For the Hansard record, could you please state your full names and the capacity in which you appear before the committee?

16:46 - 16:50

Speaker 10

Good morning. I'm Erin Laidle, CEO of the Alcohol and Drug Foundation. Good morning.

16:50 - 16:54

Speaker 74

I'm Amy Herbert, manager of policy and engagement at the Alcohol and Drug Foundation.

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