The AIHW receives invitations to provide oral and written submissions to health and welfare-related inquiries conducted by Commonwealth, state and territory parliaments, the Productivity Commission and royal commissions.

Submissions are accessed through the relevant inquiry’s website, using the links provided.

List of submissions made by AIHW to inquiries: 1 July 2019 to date

AIHW submission

Conducted by

Date of submission

Inquiry into Intergenerational Housing InequitySenate Select Committee on Intergenerational Housing Inequity1/05/2026
Inquiry into the relationship between domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) and suicide [PDF 326kB]The Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs30/01/2026

Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system inquiry

Senate Standing Committees on Legal and Constitutional Affairs – Parliament of Australia

11/12/2025

Annual Report No.1 of the 48th Parliament – pre-hearing submission – post-hearing submission and answers to questions on notice

Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme

7/11/2025

Annual Report No.1 of the 48th Parliament – pre-hearing submission

Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme

14/10/2025

Australian Centre for Disease Control Bill 2025 and a related billSenate Standing Committees on Community Affairs25/09/2025

Inquiry into the health impacts of alcohol and other drugs in Australia

House Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport31/12/2024

Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system inquiry

Senate Standing Committees on Legal and Constitutional Affairs

10/10/2024

Inquiry into Workforce Development in Northern Australia

Joint Committee on Northern Australia

16/07/2024

Inquiry into excess mortality

Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs

23/05/2024

Concussions and repeated head trauma in contact sports

Community Affairs References Committee

14/02/2023

Inquiry into Long COVID and Repeated COVID Infections – Attachment A to the Department of Health and Aged Care’s submission

Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport

Unknown/11/2022

Inquiry into Mental Health and Suicide Prevention

The House of Representatives Select Committee on Mental Health and Suicide Prevention

23/03/2021

Senate Select Committee into Tobacco Harm Reduction [PDF 775kB]

Senate Select Committee into Tobacco Harm Reduction

02/11/2020

Indigenous Evaluation Strategy

Productivity Commission

31/07/2020

Inquiry into family, domestic and sexual violence

The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs

20/07/2020

Senate Select Committee on Autism [PDF 380kB]

Senate Select Committee on Autism

16/07/2020

Inquiry into homelessness in Australia

Supplementary submission

House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs

10/06/2020

Inquiry into responses to historical forced adoptions in Victoria

Victoria Legislative Assembly, Legal and Social Issues Committee

03/02/2020

Inquiry into Homelessness in Victoria

Victoria Legislative Assembly, Legal and Social Issues Committee

24/01/2020

Inquiry into illicit tobacco [PDF 915kB]

Joint Committee on Law Enforcement

27/11/2019

Inquiry into the use of cannabis in Victoria

Victoria Legislative Assembly, Legal and Social Issues Committee

22/11/2019

Inquiry into effective approaches to prevention, diagnosis and support for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

Senate Standing Committees Community Affairs

22/11/2019

Review into the Indigenous evaluation strategy

Productivity Commission

26/08/2019