Public Hearing Day 1 – Sydney, 5 August 2026

The timestamps below correlate with each witnesses' evidence. The links will open the video of each witnesses' evidence on our YouTube channel.

• 0:00 Pre-Hearing
• 0:43 Commencement of hearing
• 25:33 Adjournment
• 29:53 Evidence of Professor Julian Droogan, Head of School, International Studies, School of International Studies, Macquarie University
• 1:16:31 Adjournment
• 1:46:58 Evidence of Witness 'ADC' (a pseudonym), lived experience
• 3:07:03 Evidence of Dr Joshua Roose, Associate Professor of Politics, Deakin University
• 4:12:34 Adjournment
• 4:22:31 Evidence of Dr Rodger Shanahan