House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs
9 November 2026
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House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs Parliament of Australia
Follow its sittings16:20 - 17:39
Speaker 8
I open the public hearing of the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs for the inquiry into the relationship between domestic, family and sexual violence and suicide. I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the various countries on which we meet around Australia today, and pay my respects to their ancestors and elders, past, present and emerging. I extend this respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their cultural and spiritual connections to Australia's lands and waters. This hearing will be broadcast, and this transcript of the 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 1800RESPECT, Lifeline, 13YARN, Kids Helpline, or other support services. There is also Parliamentary Workplace Support Service and Employee Assistance Program for broadcasting, Hansard, and committee secretariat, and for the committee and its members' staff. I now welcome representatives of Single Mother Families Australia to give evidence. For the Hansard record, would you please state your full name and the capacity in which you appear before the committee?
17:39 - 17:46
Speaker 11
Thank you. Dr Terese Edwards, CEO of Single Mother Families Australia.
17:46 - 17:53
Speaker 8
I had forgotten you'd got your PhD, congratulations. And you might be joined by someone else, I understand?
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