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House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs (part 1 of 2)

25 June 2026

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Contents updated on 22 Oct 2026

ACT minister and officials outline the Domestic and Family Violence Death Review (including suicides and overdoses), key findings on coercive control, misidentification and child impacts, and respond on police training, perpetrator programs, high‑risk offender management and critical‑incident review mechanisms within a whole‑of‑system safety approach.

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ACT DFV death review, coercive control and system responses

01:15:36

Chair opens ACT hearing and introduces DFV death review

01:15:36

ACT responses for children and youth exposed to violence

01:24:40

Evidence gaps, coercive control and misidentification risks

01:32:56

Police training, intervention points and perpetrator programs in ACT

01:46:21

High‑risk offenders, police role and critical incident review

01:57:23

AIHW — national suicide and FDSV data, coding and governance

02:02:54

AIHW opening: national suicide–FDSV data gaps and priorities

02:02:54

Coding language, ICD‑11 and disaggregating child maltreatment

02:10:55

Cross‑jurisdiction consistency, data purpose and provider burden

02:15:52

AI, emergency department notes and linked‑data insights on suicide

02:21:06

Strategic priorities and governance of national health data

02:41:31

Relationships Australia — universal DFSV screening, hubs and perpetrator interventions

03:01:06

Relationships Australia opening: universal screening and hubs

03:01:06

DORS risk screen: design, use and data potential

03:07:16

Intervention points, hubs and perpetrator programs as suicide prevention

03:12:11

Confidentiality, children’s interests and long‑term relationship patterns

03:22:20

Sector funding, evaluation capacity and broader drivers like gambling

03:29:41

Service access for male victims, female perpetrators and shifting norms

03:36:29

Specialist sexual‑violence services, suicidality and national system design

03:44:03

Canberra Rape Crisis Centre: prevalence, suicidality and death‑review remit

03:44:03

Coding suicides, long‑tail trauma and under‑resourced specialist services

03:49:32

System design, national data gaps and barriers to disclosure

04:05:00

Risk periods across the life course and ongoing suicide screening

04:25:06

National DFSV Commissioner and lived experience — child‑focused mental‑health reform

05:32:53

DFSV Commissioner and lived experience council: national context

05:32:53

Red flags in schools and justice, and trauma‑informed system reform

05:44:25

House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs (part 1 of 2)

25 June 2026

House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs Fri, 26 Jun 2026 Australian Parliament

01:15:35 - 01:16:47

Speaker 26

Open the public hearing of the standing committee of social and policy and legal affairs inquiry into the relationship between domestic family and sexual violence. I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the country in which we meet today and pay my respects to their ancestors and elders past, present, and emerging. I extend this respect to all Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander peoples and their cultural and spiritual connections to Australia's lands and waters. This hearing will be broadcast, and a 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.

If anything you hear today upsets you or causes distress, please reach out to 1800, LIFE LINE, 13, Kids Helpline, or other support services. There is also parliamentary workplace support and employee assistance program for broadcasting Hansard, the committee secretary, the committee, and member staff. I now welcome doctor Marissa Patterson, MLA, and representatives of the ACT government to give evidence. For the Hansard record, could you please state your full name and the capacity in which you appear before the committee?

01:16:48 - 01:16:59

Speaker 35

Doctor Marisa Patterson, member for Murrumbidgee. Mhmm. Jacinta Evans, a a group manager in the, health community services directorate.

01:17:00 - 01:17:04

Speaker 8

Karina Rathi, director general, health community, services directorate.

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