Senator Fatima Payman told how her family fled to Australia when she was eight, and broke down in tears as she paid tribute to her father Abdul who died of cancer before he could see her elected.
The British charity Campaign Against Living Miserably has shared a series of poignant pictures taken by people who died by suicide to show there were tell-tale signs they were suicidal.
Geologists say the Australian major city could be hit with an earthquake 30 times more powerful than the devastating one that struck Christchurch in 2011 and claimed 185 lives.