Senate Select Committee on Women's Health - Adelaide, SA (part 2 of 2)
5 November 2026
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Senate Select Committee on Women's Health Parliament of Australia
Follow its sittings00:00 - 00:27
Nicole Highet
Representative of the Alliance’s Policy and Advocacy Committee
by the clinician, on the clinician's desktop, because of stigma and the mention the reasons that Julia's mentioned, and this could be particularly in the postnatal period. So, they're just some things to think about with screening. It's not an all or nothing, and depending on what you're offered in Australia depends on where you live, because of our federated state and what systems people use. Just in terms of what happens after screening, which is such a valuable question, important question,
00:27 - 00:47
Speaker 1
this is why in the opening statement, we talk about the importance of national data collection and collection over time.
And I'd suggest just calling on Nicole Reilly here just to talk about the importance of national data sets and longitudinal data so we can really evaluate the impacts of screening.
00:47 - 01:34
Nicole Reilly
Representative, Australian Alliance of Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
Yeah. Thanks, Nicole. And thanks everybody. I think one of the things that we've discussed as an alliance is what Australian evidence already tells us and the important lessons we're able to learn about what happens when governments do invest comprehensively. And we were very fortunate to be able to conduct some evaluations of the National Perinatal Depression Initiative, for example, when we were able to show quite in a really compelling way that when screening was combined with psycho-social assessment, a really well-resourced workforce that was well-trained, clear referral pathways and additional funding for those treatment pathways, access to mental health care did increase substantially.
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