Djirra, an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation, is calling on governments to recognise Aboriginal women dying by suicide as a national crisis.
In Australia, Aboriginal women die by suicide at significantly higher rates than other women.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare found the suicide rate for Aboriginal women was 2.6 times higher than that of other women nationally in 2023.
"Djirra sees the impact of family violence on Aboriginal women's mental health, cultural wellbeing and safety every day," the organisation said in a submission to the committee.
"People who use violence often use coercive control, racism and cultural abuse to isolate Aboriginal women from protective factors against suicide, including family, community, culture, Country and supports such as health care, education and employment."
Meanwhile, youth mental health research organisation Orygen said young people, particularly those in out-of-home care, should be considered an at-risk group for both family violence and suicide.
Young people in out-of-home care placements disproportionately experience multiple risk factors for suicide, including high rates of domestic violence, abuse and trauma.
"Experiences of DFSV among young people occur during a critical developmental stage characterised by heightened vulnerability to environmental stressors and the peak onset of mental ill-health," Orygen said in its committee submission.
"Children who have experienced DFSV are almost five times more likely to access mental health services before the age of 18 than their peers."
Australian Institute of Criminology data revealed a 35 per cent increase in the number of women killed by intimate partners in 2023/24, following a 31 per cent rise the previous year.
But the committee is also aiming to determine whether governments are accurately counting the death toll of domestic, family and sexual violence.
Suicides related to victims of domestic and family violence are currently not counted in assessments of this crisis in Australia, which committee chair and Labor MP Louise Miller-Frost said could mean the true death toll is much higher than thought.
"Developing a methodology for more accurately counting the DFSV death toll across Australian, state and territory jurisdictions could enable better policy and programs ... and the delivery of more effectively targeted legal, justice, health, mental health and specialist services," she said.
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