Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade

24 June 2026

Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Australian Parliament

12:14 - 13:03
Speaker 21
I now declare 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 Australia's international development program in preventing conflict open.  I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners land in which we meet today.  I'd like to pay my respects to elders past and present.  I also acknowledge the cultures of any aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples present with us today.  The hearing of this broadcast... 

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 web page.  I now welcome representatives from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research to give evidence today.  For the hand side record, would you please state your name and the capacity in which you appear before the committee?  We might start, online with miss Dawson. 
13:05 - 13:11
Speaker 11
Thank Nick Austin, acting chief executive officer of ACR.  Thank you. 
13:11 - 13:14
Speaker 8
Do we have, online members from ACR? 

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