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COLLECTION · Series · 2008

Q&A

Hosted by Hamish Macdonald, Q&A puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. It's about democracy in action - the audience gets to ask the questions.

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* 3.2 (5)NewsTalk
Studios
ABC TV
Runtime
60 min/ep
Release
22/05/2008
Score
3.2 / 10 (5)
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Seasons and episodes
Specials
8 episodes · 2012
Episode 1. Q&A Climate Debate
2012-04-26 · 60 min

Panellists: Social researcher and writer, Rebecca Huntley; former Liberal Minister, Nick Minchin; founder of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, Anna Rose; mining magnate, Clive Palmer; Chief Executive of the CSIRO, Dr Megan Clark.

Episode 2. An Audience with Bill Gates
2013-05-28 · 60 min

Host Tony Jones and Microsoft founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates front an audience at The University Of New South Wales.

Episode 3. More Than Beef, Boats & Bali
2013-07-04 · 60 min

Panellists: Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Senior advisor to Indonesian Vice President Boediono; Tim Lindsey, Director, Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society; Yuli Ismartono, Deputy Editor in Chief of Tempo magazine; Rafendi Djamin, Human…

Episode 4. An Audience With Christine Lagarde
2014-02-20 · 60 min

Tony Jones hosts a special Q&A with the Managing Director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde.

Episode 5. Q&A Special: Between a Frock and a Hard Place
2015-06-18 · 60 min

Panellists: Professor Dennis Altman, Gay rights activist and author; Paul Capsis, Entertainer; Julie McCrossin, Broadcaster and journalist; Fred Nile, Conservative Morals Campaigner; Julia Doulman, Transgender Woman; and Katherine Hudson,…

Episode 6. Q&A Special: Hitting Home
2015-11-25 · 60 min

How does domestic violence begin? How does it escalate from control to physical violence? How can it be prevented? Julia Baird hosts a Q&A special with Christian Porter, Nova Peris, Mick Fuller, Cathy Humphreys & Moo Baulch.

Episode 7. Q&A Special: #MeToo
2018-02-15 · 60 min

From Hollywood to Australia #MeToo has seen women calling Times Up! on sexual harassment. Virginia Trioli hosts a special Q&A with Isabella Manfredi, Josh Bornstein, Janet Albrechtsen & Catharine Lumby.

Malcolm Turnbull
Episode 8. Malcolm Turnbull
2018-11-08 · 60 min

Host Tony Jones is joined by special guest and former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as he makes his first major media appearance to answer questions from the people of Australia on a special Q&A.

Season 1
20 episodes · 2008
Episode 1. The Rudd Files
2008-05-22 · 60 min

The Q&A season kicked off on May 22nd with the man in the top job. Kevin Rudd was in the hot seat with our sharp and always on-the-pulse audience including our SMS and online community.

Episode 2. Tony, Tanya and Bob.
2008-05-29 · 60 min

Tony Abbott and Tanya Plibersek are back in the boxing ring for Q&A's second episode. Joining them are Bob Brown, Warren Mundine and Louise Adler for their first grilling by the Q&A punters.

Episode 3. Round Three
2008-06-05 · 60 min

The headliners for June 5 were Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Tony Burke, author and lawyer Randa Abdel-Fattah, founder of Crikey Stephen Mayne and, The Australian newspaper's…

Episode 4. Boom shake shake shake the room!
2008-06-12 · 60 min

The headliners for 12 June, 2008 were the Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon, Senator George Brandis, associate professor Kate Crawford, Liberal MP Pru Goward and the Chaser's Charles Firth.

Episode 5. Cheryl returns
2008-06-19 · 60 min

Freshly back in Australia, former leader of the Australian Democrats Cheryl Kernot joined Assistant Treasurer Chris Bowen, Shadow Minister for Justice Christopher Pyne, Ashfield Liberal council member Nick Adams, and, television…

Episode 6. The Young Guns
2008-06-26 · 60 min

The Young Guns…Two rising stars from the federal parliament, Labor's Bill Shorten and the Liberals' Greg Hunt, joined the Q&A panel this week. Find out how the new generation from each side of the political divide approached the…

Episode 7. Politics and the Academy
2008-07-03 · 60 min

This episode of Q&A saw the Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon and her shadow Joe Hockey go head to head. Joining them were leading Indigenous scholar, Marcia Langton, writer and Assoc.

Episode 8. It's not easy being Green
2008-07-10 · 60 min

Environmental apocalypse now or never? Green’s Senator Christine Milne was up against Herald Sun columnist and climate change sceptic Andrew Bolt, with Minister for Small Business Craig Emerson, former Communications Minister Helen…

Episode 9. It takes all types of people to make the world go round...
2008-07-17 · 60 min

This week's panel were: well traveled former Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander Downer, Minister for Finance, Lindsay Tanner, author, journalist and critic of the Howard government, David Marr, columnist, Angela Shanahan and rising star…

Episode 10. Welcome the Senate
2008-07-24 · 60 min

With the Independent Senator, Nick Xenophon, the National’s Senator Barnaby Joyce and Labor Senator, Mark Arbib, on Q&A this week, we only have one thing to say... welcome the Senate. Joining them were journalist and author of "Inside…

Episode 11. Money and Trees - the green stuff
2008-07-31 · 60 min

Joining Q&A this week were: the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, Shadow Treasurer, Malcolm Turnbull, scientist and global warming activist, Tim Flannery, businesswoman, Catherine Harris and the Director of the IP and…

Episode 12. Something for Everyone
2008-08-07 · 60 min

This week’s Q&A had something for everyone: Peter Garrett, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts went head to head with the Shadow Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Bronwyn Bishop. Joining them were the Chaser’s Julian…

Episode 13. Writing Politics
2008-08-14 · 60 min

On Q&A this week the writers dominated. The show featured author and academic, Germaine Greer, former NSW premier and author of My Reading Life, Bob Carr, deputy opposition leader Julie Bishop, The Australian newspaper's foreign…

Episode 14. All’s fair in love and politics
2008-08-21 · 60 min

On Q&A, star graduate of the NSW Labor Left Faction, master strategist and now Minister for Infrastructure, Anthony Albanese and former barrister and current Shadow Attorney General, George Brandis were joined by Blanche D’Alpuget,…

Episode 15. Q&A Episode 15 - No catchy title, just a great panel
2008-08-28 · 60 min

Another exciting episode of Q&A with author and journalist John Pilger on the program, he was joined by Minister for Small Business, Craig Emerson, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Sharman Stone, Political Editor for the Sydney…

Episode 16. Sweet 16 - episodes that is...
2008-09-04 · 60 min

Episode 16 of Q&A features a stellar panel. Labor's rising star and Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children's Services, Bill Shorten is joined by Shadow Minister for Justice, Christopher Pyne, former leader of the NSW…

Episode 17. So many questions, so little time...
2008-09-11 · 60 min

Taking the stage this week are: Shadow Minister for Defence and leader of the opposition in the Senate, Nick Minchin, the Minister for Housing and Status of Women, Tanya Plibersek, political journalist and author of "Poll Dancing" - a…

Episode 18. Who needs sandwiches when you have Q&A providing food for thought?
2008-09-18 · 60 min

Q&A feeds your brain this week with a great assortment of guests. Rhodes Scholar with an Oxford Blue in boxing and one of the better performers in the House, Shadow Minister for Families and Indigenous Affairs, Tony Abbott makes a…

Episode 19. A penultimate treat from Q&A
2008-09-25 · 60 min

The Parliamentary Liberal Party has chosen a new leader. As Tony Abbott said in a Q&A program, "...the king is dead, long live the king."

Episode 20. Goodnight and good luck...
2008-10-02 · 60 min

Q&A wrapped its debut season with a cracking line up to take your questions. Audiences tuned in to see Australia's longest serving Treasurer and soon-to-be civilian, Peter Costello, Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon, former…

Season 2
32 episodes · 2009
Episode 1. Q&A returns with Australians of the Year!!!
2009-02-12 · 60 min

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Episode 2. An Economic Time...
2009-02-19 · 60 min

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Episode 3. A Classic Q&A
2009-02-26 · 60 min

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Episode 4. TANNER and COSTELLO on Q and A
2009-03-05 · 60 min

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Episode 5. A Mixed Bunch
2009-03-12 · 60 min

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Episode 6. Religion, Sex and Politics
2009-03-19 · 60 min

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Episode 7. Q and A live from Melbourne
2009-03-26 · 60 min

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Episode 8. Chinese Puzzles
2009-04-02 · 60 min

Tony Jones's guests this week include Senator George Brandis and Young Liberal Party member Rachel Fry.

Episode 9. Banks, Bikies and Broadband
2009-04-09 · 60 min

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Episode 10. The John Elliot Show
2009-04-16 · 60 min

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Episode 11. P.J. O'Rourke on Q and A
2009-04-23 · 60 min

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Episode 12. Green and everything in between
2009-04-30 · 60 min

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Episode 13. Taxes, Torture and the Taliban
2009-05-07 · 60 min

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Episode 14. Budget Special from Canberra
2009-05-14 · 60 min

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Episode 15. Beyond Spin
2009-05-21 · 60 min

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Episode 16. And That's Half-Time
2009-05-28 · 60 min

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Episode 17. Back in Town
2009-07-23 · 60 min

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Episode 18. Queensland Rising
2009-07-30 · 60 min

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Episode 19. The Youth Show
2009-08-06 · 60 min

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Episode 20. The more things change...
2009-08-13 · 60 min

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Episode 21. Back to Balibo
2009-08-20 · 60 min

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Episode 22. Live from the Melbourne Writers Festival
2009-08-27 · 60 min

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Episode 23. Sex and Politics
2009-09-03 · 60 min

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Episode 24. Women, War, Sex and Kevin Rudd
2009-09-10 · 60 min

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Episode 25. The History Wars
2009-09-17 · 60 min

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Episode 26. Q&A Live from Adelaide
2009-09-24 · 60 min

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Episode 27. God, Sodomy and the Lash
2009-10-01 · 60 min

Panelists: Christopher Hitchens, author and radical atheist; Father Frank Brennan, Jesuit intellectual and social activist; Waleed Aly, politics lecturer; Sally Warhaft, author and founding editor of The Monthly; and Anne Henderson,…

Episode 28. Hey Hey It's Racism
2009-10-08 · 60 min

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Episode 29. Alexei Sayle joins Q and A
2009-10-15 · 60 min

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Episode 30. John Elliott Returns
2009-10-22 · 60 min

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Episode 31. The Indonesian Non-Solution
2009-10-29 · 60 min

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Episode 32. That's A Wrap
2009-11-05 · 60 min

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Season 3
41 episodes · 2010
Episode 1. The PM on Q and A
2010-02-08 · 60 min

Q&A made a triumphant return for 2010 with a special program from Old Parliament House in Canberra featuring Kevin Rudd and an audience of 200 young Australians aged 16-25. Program producers were inundated with hundreds of excellent…

Episode 2. Tanner and Joyce Go Head to Head
2010-02-15 · 60 min

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Episode 3. Turnbull Returns
2010-02-22 · 60 min

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Episode 4. Art, Power and Passion
2010-03-01 · 60 min

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Episode 5. God, Science and Sanity
2010-03-08 · 60 min

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Episode 6. Conservatives, Comedians and Political Correctness
2010-03-15 · 60 min

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Episode 7. The Health of the Nation
2010-03-22 · 60 min

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Episode 8. Greens, budgies and staffers...
2010-03-29 · 60 min

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Episode 9. Tony Abbott on Q and A
2010-04-05 · 60 min

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Episode 10. The American Ambassador on Q&A
2010-04-12 · 60 min

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Episode 11. Premiers, Population and the Politics of Fear
2010-04-19 · 60 min

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Episode 12. Anzac Day Special
2010-04-26 · 60 min

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Episode 13. Emissions Trading, Taxation and Trust
2010-05-03 · 60 min

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Episode 14. Censorship in Cyberspace
2010-05-10 · 60 min

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Episode 15. Budget special
2010-05-17 · 60 min

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Episode 16. Democracy, Death and Taxes
2010-05-24 · 60 min

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Episode 17. Backlash in Bennelong?
2010-05-31 · 60 min

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Episode 18. Q and A Goes West
2010-06-07 · 60 min

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Episode 19. For Lovers of Animals
2010-06-14 · 60 min

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Episode 20. Greens in the Spotlight
2010-06-21 · 60 min

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Episode 21. The Gillard Coup
2010-06-28 · 60 min

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Episode 22. New PM & Population
2010-07-05 · 60 min

Panellists: Tony Burke, Minister for Sustainable Population; George Brandis, shadow attorney-general; Annabel Crabb, journalist and commentator; Cheryl Kernot, former Labor MP and Leader of the Australian Democrats; and Grahame Morris,…

Episode 23. Fear, Loathing and the East Timor Solution
2010-07-12 · 60 min

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Episode 24. And They're Off!
2010-07-19 · 60 min

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Episode 25. Where's the Passion?
2010-07-26 · 60 min

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Episode 26. Q and A Goes to Brisbane
2010-08-02 · 60 min

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Episode 27. Julia Gillard joins Q and A
2010-08-09 · 60 min

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Episode 28. Q and A Population Debate Special Dick Smith's Population Puzzle
2010-08-12 · 60 min

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Episode 29. Tony Abbott joins Q and A
2010-08-16 · 60 min

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Episode 30. Where's Mark Arbib?
2010-08-23 · 60 min

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Episode 31. Q and A at the Melbourne Writers Festival
2010-08-30 · 60 min

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Episode 32. Bob Katter joins Q&A
2010-09-06 · 60 min

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Episode 33. A new political paradigm
2010-09-13 · 60 min

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Episode 34. Euthanasia in a hung parliament
2010-09-20 · 60 min

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Episode 35. Politics, Betrayal and Sex
2010-09-27 · 60 min

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Episode 36. Q and A Gets Dangerous
2010-10-04 · 60 min

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Episode 37. Q and A Sports Special
2010-10-11 · 60 min

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Episode 38. Miracles, Media and the Murray
2010-10-18 · 60 min

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Episode 39. The Odd Angry Shoe: John Howard on Q and A
2010-10-25 · 60 min

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Episode 40. Q and A goes West
2010-11-01 · 60 min

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Episode 41. That's Goodbye From Us...
2010-11-08 · 60 min

Panellists: Bill Shorten, Assistant Treasurer; George Brandis, shadow attorney-general; Randa Abdel Fattah, author and lawyer; Janet Albrechtsen, conservative commentator; and Jonathan Biggins, satirist and performer.

Season 4
41 episodes · 2011
Episode 1. Don's Party Revisited
2011-02-07 · 60 min

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Episode 2. Revolution, Revelations and Romance
2011-02-14 · 60 min

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Episode 3. Q and A Goes to Brisbane
2011-02-21 · 60 min

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Episode 4. The Carbon Curse
2011-02-28 · 60 min

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Episode 5. The Gender Divide
2011-03-07 · 60 min

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Episode 6. Julia Gillard Meets the People
2011-03-14 · 60 min

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Episode 7. The Q and A Century
2011-03-21 · 60 min

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Episode 8. After the Massacre
2011-03-28 · 60 min

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Episode 9. Confessions of Kevin
2011-04-04 · 60 min

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Episode 10. Defence, Discrimination and Regrets
2011-04-11 · 60 min

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Episode 11. Women in Uniform
2011-04-25 · 60 min

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Episode 12. Royal Wedding Special
2011-04-28 · 60 min

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Episode 13. Q and A Goes to Albury
2011-05-02 · 60 min

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Episode 14. The Bin Laden Hit
2011-05-09 · 60 min

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Episode 15. The Welfare Conundrum
2011-05-16 · 60 min

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Episode 16. Sydney Writers' Festival
2011-05-23 · 60 min

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Episode 17. Cate's Carbon Controversy
2011-05-30 · 60 min

Panellists: George Brandis, shadow attorney-general; Kate Lundy, Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration; Jackie Kelly, former Howard government minister; Guy Rundle, roving reporter for Crikey; and Joe Hildebrand, columnist and blogger…

Episode 18. Australia: The Nanny State?
2011-06-06 · 60 min

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Episode 19. Activism, Cattle and Katter
2011-06-13 · 60 min

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Episode 20. The Gen-Y Q&A
2011-06-20 · 60 min

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Episode 21. Taxes, Leaders and the Greens
2011-06-27 · 60 min

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Episode 22. Carbon, Cattle and Misogynists
2011-07-04 · 60 min

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Episode 23. Q&A: Stopping the Boats
2011-07-07 · 60 min

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Episode 24. Julia Gillard Joins Q&A
2011-07-11 · 60 min

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Episode 25. A Spiritual Special
2011-07-18 · 60 min

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Episode 26. Q&A Goes to Hobart
2011-07-25 · 60 min

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Episode 27. Murdoch, Media and Mad Men
2011-08-01 · 60 min

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Episode 28. GFC, Refugees and Morality
2011-08-08 · 60 min

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Episode 29. Disability, Fracking and Riots
2011-08-15 · 60 min

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Episode 30. Islam, Israel and Insurgents
2011-08-22 · 60 min

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Episode 31. Melbourne Writers Festival
2011-08-29 · 60 min

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Episode 32. The Malaysian Non-Solution
2011-09-05 · 60 min

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Episode 33. Women on Top
2011-09-12 · 60 min

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Episode 34. A Philosophical Q and A
2011-09-19 · 60 min

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Episode 35. Acting, Parliament and Mental Health
2011-09-26 · 60 min

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Episode 36. A Very Dangerous Q&A
2011-10-03 · 60 min

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Episode 37. Kevin's Comeback
2011-10-10 · 60 min

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Episode 38. Q and a Live from Darwin
2011-10-17 · 60 min

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Episode 39. Pope of Trash and Princess of Pop
2011-10-24 · 60 min

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Episode 40. A Musical Q and A
2011-10-31 · 60 min

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Episode 41. Malcolm Turnbull, Jessica Rudd, Kate Ellis and Peter Reith
2011-11-07 · 60 min

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Season 5
43 episodes · 2012
Episode 1. Q&A Returns
2012-02-06 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel are: News Limited columnist and blogger, Joe Hildebrand; Shadow Treasurer, Joe Hockey; economist and businesswoman, Judith Sloan; and founder of the left-wing think tank CPD, Miriam Lyons.

Episode 2. Celebrities, Leaders and the Speaker
2012-02-13 · 60 min

Panellists: Jenny McAllister, ALP National President; Helen Kroger, Liberal Senator; Mikey Robins, comedian; Robert Manne, writer and academic; and Tim Wilson, Institute of Public Affairs.

Episode 3. The Labor Leadership
2012-02-20 · 60 min

Panellists: Julie Bishop, Eva Cox, Annabel Crabb, Daniel Hannan.

Episode 4. After the Ballot
2012-02-27 · 60 min

Panellists: Government Leader in the Senate, Chris Evans; the Nationals' Senator, Barnaby Joyce; former Queensland Premier, Peter Beattie; Deputy Leader of the Greens, Christine Milne; Kevin Rudd's former advisor, Lachlan Harris; and…

Episode 5. Live from Adelaide
2012-03-05 · 60 min

Panellists: Amanda Vanstone, former Howard Government Minister; Mark Steyn, conservative commentator and writer; Natasha Stott Despoja, one-time Democrats leader; Jianying Zha, writer and adviser to US President Barack Obama; and Paul…

Episode 6. Katter, Kony and the Climate
2012-03-12 · 60 min

Panellists: Health Minister, Tanya Plibersek; Shadow Communications Minister, Malcolm Turnbull; former Farmer of the Year, Michael O'Brien; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda; and Feminist writer…

Episode 7. Politics and Porn in a Post-Feminist World
2012-03-19 · 60 min

Panellists Germaine Greer, celebrated Australian intellectual; Toby Ralph, marketing and political strategist; Benjamin Law, writer and journalist; Christa Hughes, cabaret artist; and Craig Gross, America's contentious porn pastor.

Episode 8. The Qld Election
2012-03-26 · 60 min

Panellists: Craig Emerson, Trade Minister; George Brandis, Shadow Attorney General; Larissa Waters, Queensland Greens Senator; Grahame Morris, political strategist; Liberty Sanger, labor lawyer.

Episode 9. Live from Hobart
2012-04-02 · 60 min

Panellists: former Violent Femme, Brian Ritchie, now director of Hobart's MONA Festival of Music and Art; The Minister for Community Services, Julie Collins; Liberal Senate Leader, Eric Abetz; Outspoken Independent and anti-gambling MP,…

Episode 10. Religion and Atheism
2012-04-09 · 60 min

Panellists: Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell and British atheist, Professor Richard Dawkins.

Episode 11. Philosophy and the World
2012-04-16 · 60 min

Panellists: Attorney-General, Nicola Roxon; shadow education minister, Christopher Pyne; humanist philosopher, A.C. Grayling; human rights lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson and Middle East analyst, Lydia Khalil.

Episode 12. Bob Brown joins Q&A
2012-04-23 · 60 min

Panellist: Bob Brown, outgoing leader of the Australian Greens.

Episode 13. Q&A Climate Debate
2012-04-26 · 60 min

Panellists: Social researcher and writer, Rebecca Huntley; former Liberal Minister, Nick Minchin; founder of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, Anna Rose; mining magnate, Clive Palmer; Chief Executive of the CSIRO, Dr Megan Clark.

Episode 14. Live from Dandenong
2012-04-30 · 60 min

Panellists: Mark Dreyfus, Cabinet Secretary and local Labor MP; Sophie Mirabella, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry and Science; Victor Victor, Sudanese youth leader; Ged Kearney, President of the Australian Council of Trade…

Episode 15. Show Me the Money...
2012-05-07 · 60 min

Panellists: Graham Richardson, Labor powerbroker turned commentator; Mark Butler, Minister for Mental Health and Ageing; Kelly O'Dwyer, Liberal MP; Mark Bouris, leading Australian businessman; and Kate Miller-Heidke, singer songwriter.

Episode 16. Morals and Politics
2012-05-14 · 60 min

Panellists: Penny Wong, Finance Minister; Joe Hockey, Shadow Treasurer; Tim Costello, CEO of World Vision Australia; Judith Sloan, economist and businesswoman; and Stephen Mayne, Crikey founder and shareholder activist.

Episode 17. Sydney Writers' Festival
2012-05-21 · 60 min

Panellists: Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex, Kathy Lette, Australian author, commentator and self-confessed "demented mother"; Glenn Carle, former CIA interrogator and analyst; Masha…

Episode 18. Barry Humphries joins Q&A
2012-05-28 · 60 min

Panellists: Barry Humphries, celebrated Australian writer, satirist and actor; Miriam Margolyes, star of Harry Potter and champion of English novelist Charles Dickens; Jacki Weaver, Academy Award nominated actress; David Marr, journalist…

Episode 19. Live from Toowoomba
2012-06-04 · 60 min

Panellists: Simon Crean, Federal Minister for Regional Australia and the Arts; Barnaby Joyce, Queensland Senator and Shadow Federal Minister for Regional Development; Christine Milne, Leader of the Greens; Georgie Somerset, Kingaroy…

Episode 20. Prime Minister Julia Gillard joins Q&A
2012-06-11 · 60 min

Panellists: Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard.

Episode 21. Life, the Universe and Everything
2012-06-18 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel are: NSW Minister for Community Services, Pru Goward; English comedian, Lenny Henry; News Limited columnist and blogger, Joe Hildebrand; Age Discrimination Commissioner, Susan Ryan; and academic and writer,…

Episode 22. The Great Boat Debacle
2012-06-25 · 60 min

Panellists: Kate Lundy, Minister for Sport and Multicultural Affairs; Tim Freedman, lead singer of The Whitlams; George Brandis, Shadow Attorney General; Dr John Lee, foreign policy academic and China expert; and Louise Adler, CEO of…

Episode 23. After the Carbon Tax
2012-07-02 · 60 min

Panellists: Greg Combet, Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency; Sophie Mirabella, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry and Science; Simon Sheikh, National Director of GetUp; Lenore Taylor, National Affairs Correspondent…

Episode 24. Artistic Politics
2012-07-09 · 60 min

Panellists: Chris Bowen, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship; Malcolm Turnbull, Shadow Communications Minister; Nahji Chu, one-time refugee now successful restaurateur; Thierry de Duve, internationally acclaimed art theorist and…

Episode 25. Random Violence
2012-07-16 · 60 min

Panellists: Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning author; Joel Fitzgibbon, Government Whip; Greg Hunt, Shadow Climate Minister; Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens Senator; Jennifer Hewett, political journalist; and Peter Craven, literary critic.

Episode 26. Teachers, Schools and our Education System
2012-07-23 · 60 min

Panellists: Simon Sheikh, GetUp Director; Nicola Roxon, Attorney-General; Christopher Pyne, Shadow Education Minister; Michael Spence, Vice-Chancellor of Sydney University and Jane Caro, social commentator.

Episode 27. A Q&A of Olympic proportions
2012-07-30 · 60 min

Panellists: Shane Gould, Australian swimming legend and triple Olympic gold medal winner; Louise Sauvage, multi gold medallist wheelchair racer; David Pocock, incoming captain of the Australian Wallabies rugby team; John Alexander, tennis…

Episode 28. Manners, Mining and the Can-do Attitude
2012-08-06 · 60 min

Panellists: Katie Noonan, singer-songwriter; Craig Emerson, Minister for Trade; George Brandis, Shadow Attorney General; Bob Katter, political maverick and leader of the Australian Party; and Debbie Kilroy, prisoner rights advocate.

Episode 29. Big Ideas and Big Society
2012-08-13 · 60 min

Panellists: Peter Singer, Ethicist and philosopher; Phillip Blond, British political thinker and theologian; Dr Cassandra Goldie, Head of Australian Council of Social Service; Mark Butler, Minister for Mental Health and Ageing; and Pru…

Episode 30. Assange, Asylum & Human Bondage
2012-08-20 · 60 min

Panellists: Graham Richardson, Labor powerbroker turned commentator; Doug Cameron, Labor Senator for New South Wales; Janet Albrechtsen, Opinion columnist for The Australian; Simon Birmingham, Liberal Senator for South Australia; and…

Episode 31. Mutilation and the Media Generation
2012-08-27 · 60 min

Panellists: Simon Callow, Celebrated British actor and writer; Germaine Greer, Feminist icon and provocateur; Anthony Appiah, Ghanaian-British-American philosopher and novelist; and Sefi Atta, Nigerian Author.

Episode 32. Trolls and Trawlers
2012-09-03 · 60 min

Panellists: Tony Burke, Minister For Environment and Sustainability; Tara Moss, Author and former model; Angry Anderson, Rock singer and conservative political activist; Fiona Nash, The National's Senator and Nitin Sawhney, British Indian…

Episode 33. Seek and Ye Shall Submit
2012-09-10 · 60 min

Panellists: Peter Jensen, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney; Chris Evans, Minister for Tertiary Education; Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Ageing; Anna Krien, Journalist and author; and Catherine Deveny,…

Episode 34. Protests and Palestine
2012-09-17 · 60 min

Panellists: Clover Moore, Newly re-elected Lord Mayor of Sydney; Robyn Davidson, Acclaimed Australian author; Ilan Pappe, Israeli born historian; Irving Wallach, Prominent Australian barrister; and Greg Sheridan, Foreign Affairs editor of…

Episode 35. The Future of The Future
2012-09-24 · 60 min

Panellists: Tanya Plibersek, Minister for Health; Kelly O'Dwyer, Liberal Member for Higgins; Mark Carnegie, Venture capitalist and philanthropist; Elliot Perlman, Australian novelist and screenwriter; and Jason Silva, American futurist…

Episode 36. Sorry, Lust and Free Will
2012-10-01 · 60 min

Panellists: Jane Bussmann, 'Bob and Bono - Get Out of Africa!'; Shiv Malik, 'The War of Young against Old'; Jianying Zha, 'China Hearts America'; Jesse Bering, 'We're All Sexual Perverts!'; and Simon Laham, 'The Joy of Sin'.

Episode 37. Bullying, Education & Purpose
2012-10-08 · 60 min

Panellists: Kate Ellis, Minister for Employment Participation; Christopher Pyne, Shadow Education Minister; Lindsay Tanner, Former Finance Minister; Nilaja Sun, American actor and playwright; and Piers Akerman, Political commentator.

Episode 38. Super, Sexism & Surgery
2012-10-15 · 60 min

Panellists: Pamela Stephenson, Author and psychotherapist; Bill Shorten, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations; Charlie Pickering, Comedian and television presenter; Sophie Mirabella, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry and…

Episode 39. Folk Music, Five Years & Funding
2012-10-22 · 60 min

Panellists: Billy Bragg, Singer-songwriter and activist; Peter Garrett, Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth; Amanda Vanstone, Former Howard Government Minister; Scott Morrison, Shadow Immigration Minister; and Julia…

Episode 40. Forgiveness and Reconciliation
2012-10-29 · 60 min

Panellists: Kate Lundy, Minister for Sport and Multicultural Affairs; Eric Abetz, Liberal Senate Leader; Archie Roach, Indigenous singer-songwriter; Sekai Holland, Zimbabwe Minister for National Healing & Reconciliation; and Grahame…

Episode 41. James Price Point and beyond
2012-11-05 · 60 min

Panellists: Colin Barnett, WA Premier; Bob Brown, Former Leader of the Greens; Alannah MacTiernan, Former Labor Minister; Hannah McGlade, Indigenous human rights lawyer and Bob Cronin, Editor in Chief, The West Australian.

Episode 42. Elephants On Parade
2012-11-19 · 60 min

Panellists: Judith Sloan, Economist and businesswoman; Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister; Malcolm Turnbull, Shadow Communications Minister; and Heather Ridout, Reserve Bank of Australia board member.

Episode 43. Happy Endings
2012-11-26 · 60 min

Panellists: Penny Wong, Finance Minister; Barnaby Joyce, Queensland Nationals Senator; Jonathan Biggins, Playwright and Satirist; Stella Young, Comedienne and disability activist; and Janet Albrechtsen, Columnist for The Australian.

Season 6
45 episodes · 2013
Episode 1. Pies For The People
2013-02-04 · 60 min

Panellists: Christopher Pyne, Shadow Education Minister; David Bradbury, Assistant Treasurer; Amanda Vanstone, Former Howard Government Minister; Anne Summers, Author and feminist and Tim Levinson, Hip Hop Artist aka Urthboy.

Episode 2. Cry Freedom
2013-02-11 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel are: trust expert, Rachel Botsman; Shadow Attorney-General George Brandis; Senator for the state of Western Australia, Chris Evans; TV presenter-turned-lawyer, Corinne Grant; and Editor at the Institute of…

Episode 3. A Show About Nothing
2013-02-18 · 60 min

Panellists: Tanya Plibersek, Minister for Health; Greg Hunt, Shadow Minister for Climate Action; Professor Lawrence Krauss, Theoretical Physicist & Cosmologist; Dr John Dickson, Director of the Centre for Public Christianity; and Dr Cindy…

Episode 4. Espionage, Revolution & Ruin
2013-02-25 · 60 min

Panellists: Jeff Bleich, Bob Carr, Eva Cox, Ahdaf Soueif, Malcolm Turnbull.

Episode 5. Crime, Climate & Cask Wine
2013-03-04 · 60 min

Panellists: Bill Shorten, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations; Julie Bishop, Deputy Opposition Leader; Christine Milne, Leader of the Greens; Tim Ferguson, Comedian and Senate candidate and Ruslan Kogan, CEO Kogan.

Episode 6. The Education Debate
2013-03-11 · 60 min

Panellists: Peter Garrett, Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth; and Christopher Pyne, Shadow Education Minister.

Episode 7. Pope, Polls & Poverty
2013-03-18 · 60 min

Panellists: David Feeney, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence; Barnaby Joyce, Queensland Nationals Senator; Viv Benjamin, Anti-poverty Campaigner & Youth Activist; Alannah MacTiernan, Former WA Labor Minister; and Jeremy Cordeaux,…

Episode 8. Sports, Spills, Skills & Sex
2013-03-25 · 60 min

Panellists: A.C. Grayling, British Philosopher; Brendan O'Connor, Minister for Immigration; Kelly O'Dwyer, Liberal Member for Higgins; Christine Nixon, Former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police; Brendon Gale, Former AFL player and CEO…

Episode 9. Faith & Love
2013-04-01 · 60 min

Panellists: Archbishop Mark Coleridge, Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane; Dr Mohamad Abdalla, Imam; Venerable Robina Courtin, Buddhist Nun; Josh Thomas, Atheist, Comedian & Actor; and Deborah Conway, Jewish Atheist Singer-Songwriter.

Episode 10. The F Word
2013-04-08 · 60 min

Panellists: Brooke Magnanti, Research Scientist and Author Belle de Jour; Germaine Greer, Feminist icon and provocateur; Mia Freedman, Mamamia founder and director; Deborah Cheetham, Indigenous opera singer; and Janet Albrechtsen, Opinion…

Episode 11. Taking Tasmania into Tomorrow
2013-04-15 · 60 min

Panellists: Dick Adams, Labor MP for Lyons; Sophie Mirabella, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry and Science; David Marr, Journalist and commentator; Jan Davis, CEO of the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association; and Peter…

Episode 12. The Health Debate
2013-04-22 · 60 min

Panellists: Tanya Plibersek, Health Minister; and Peter Dutton, Shadow Health Minister.

Episode 13. Class Warfare, Latte Sippers & Mental Illness
2013-04-29 · 60 min

Panellists: Mark Butler, Minister for Mental Health and Ageing; Jamie Briggs, Coalition Spokesperson on Scrutiny of Government Waste; Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens Senator; Andrea Mason, Co-ordinator of NPY Women's Council; and Nick Cater,…

Episode 14. High School Showdown
2013-05-06 · 60 min

Panellists: Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia.

Episode 15. Where's the Beef?
2013-05-13 · 60 min

Panellists: Clive Palmer, Mining Magnate; Ged Kearney, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions; Tim Nicholls, Queensland Treasurer; Larissa Waters, Queensland Greens Senator; and Bob Katter, Political maverick and Leader of…

Episode 16. War, Depression & Hypersexuality
2013-05-20 · 60 min

Panellists: Ruby Wax, Comedian and Author; Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Author The Origins of Sex; Sylvia Nasar, Author A Beautiful Mind; William Dalrymple, Historian of India and the Islamic world; and Mike Carlton, Journalist, Commentator and…

Episode 17. Religion, Marriage & Euthanasia
2013-05-27 · 60 min

Panellists: Lawrence Krauss, Theoretical Physicist & Cosmologist; Gene Robinson, America's First Openly Gay Bishop; Fred Nile, Conservative Morals Campaigner; Amanda Vanstone, Former Howard Government Minister; and Susan Ryan, Age…

Episode 18. An Audience with Bill Gates
2013-05-28 · 60 min

Panellist: Bill Gates, Chairman & Founder of Microsoft and Philanthropist.

Episode 19. Racism, Hypocrisy & Hot Air
2013-06-03 · 60 min

Panellists: Martha Wainwright, Canadian Singer - Songwriter; Bill McKibben, American Environmentalist; Michael Stutchbury, Editor-in-Chief of The Australian Financial Review; Linda Burney, Indigenous MP; and Cory Bernardi, Liberal Senator.

Episode 20. Bring Back The Biff, Turn Back The Boats
2013-06-10 · 60 min

Panellists: Mark Latham, Former Federal Opposition Leader; Malcolm Turnbull, Shadow Minister for Communications; Craig Emerson, Minister for Trade; Jennifer Hewett, Political journalist; and Haifaa Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia's first female…

Episode 21. Toxic Politics & Vaccinations
2013-06-17 · 60 min

Panellists: Kate Lundy, Minister for Sport and Multicultural Affairs; Barnaby Joyce, Queensland Nationals Senator; Paul Kelly, Editor-at-large The Australian; Robert Manne, Writer and academic; and Dr Fiona Stanley, Former Australian Of…

Episode 22. Speculation & Discrimination
2013-06-24 · 60 min

Panellists: Anne Summers, Author The Misogyny Factor; George Brandis, Shadow Attorney General; Graham Richardson, Labor powerbroker turned commentator; Matt Thistlethwaite, Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs; and Judith…

Episode 23. Spin, Selling & Slogans
2013-07-01 · 60 min

Panellists: Tanya Plibersek, Minister for Health & Medical Research; Sophie Mirabella, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry and Science; Todd Sampson, Advertising CEO and Gruen Transfer regular; Sue Cato, Commentator and Spin Doctor;…

Episode 24. More Than Beef, Boats & Bali
2013-07-04 · 60 min

Panellists: Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Senior advisor to Indonesian Vice President Boediono; Tim Lindsey, Director, Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society; Yuli Ismartono, Deputy Editor in Chief of Tempo magazine; Rafendi Djamin, Human…

Episode 25. Reforms, Solutions & Compromise
2013-07-08 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel are: TV presenter-turned-lawyer, Corinne Grant; cartoonist, Bill Leak; founder of left-wing think tank CPD, Miriam Lyons; and Shadow Minister for Telecommunications, Malcolm Turnbull.

Episode 26. When The Boom Is Over
2013-07-15 · 60 min

Panellists: Stephen Smith, Minister for Defence; Julie Bishop, Deputy Opposition Leader; Scott Ludlam, WA Greens Senator; Narelda Jacobs, WA's first indigenous television news presenter; and Mitch Hooke, CEO of the Minerals Council of…

Episode 27. The PNG Solution & The Autism Spectrum
2013-07-22 · 60 min

Panellists: Bill Shorten, Minister for Education and Workplace Relations; Tim Fischer, Former Deputy Prime Minister; Arthur Sinodinos, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition; Louise Adler, CEO of Melbourne…

Episode 28. Drones, Boot Camps & Degrees
2013-07-29 · 60 min

Panellists: Magda Szubanski, Actress and Comedian; Kate Ellis, Minister for Employment Participation; Josh Frydenberg, Liberal Member for Kooyong; Peter Shergold, Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney; and Shahzad Akbar,…

Episode 29. Social Media, Surplus & Shelter
2013-08-05 · 60 min

Panellists: Doug Cameron, Parliamentary Secretary for Housing and Homelessness; Greg Hunt, Shadow Minister for Climate Action; Grahame Morris, Political strategist; Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Founder of Youth Without Borders; and Pamela…

Episode 30. Costings, Conski & Cab Rides
2013-08-12 · 60 min

Panellists: Penny Wong, Finance Minister; Christopher Pyne, Shadow Education Minister; Adam Bandt, Greens Member for Melbourne; Rhys Muldoon, Actor and Commentator; and Janet Albrechtsen, Opinion columnist for The Australian.

Episode 31. The National Economic Debate
2013-08-19 · 60 min

Panellists: Chris Bowen, Federal Treasurer; and Joe Hockey, Shadow Treasurer.

Episode 32. Papers, Parental Leave & Penalty Rates
2013-08-26 · 60 min

Panellists: Bill Shorten, Minister for Education and Workplace Relations; Kelly O'Dwyer, Liberal Member for Higgins; Tom Watson, Anti-Murdoch Campaigner; Sally Warhaft, Editor, Author and host of The Fifth Estate and Tim Wilson, Institute…

Episode 33. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
2013-09-02 · 60 min

Panellist: Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister.

Episode 34. PM, Palmer & the Poisoned Chalice
2013-09-09 · 60 min

Panellists: Tanya Plibersek, Minister for Health & Medical Research; George Brandis, Shadow Attorney General; Michael Kroger, Former President of the Victorian Liberal Party; Lenore Taylor, Chief Political Correspondent The Guardian; and…

Episode 35. Pencils, Mandates and a Single Bed
2013-09-16 · 60 min

Panellists: Clive Palmer, Leader of the Palmer United Party; Mark Latham, Former Federal Opposition Leader; Larissa Waters, Queensland Greens Senator; David Williamson, Playwright; Rebecca Huntley, Social researcher and writer; and Nick…

Episode 36. An Audience With David Suzuki
2013-09-23 · 60 min

Panellist: David Suzuki, Renowned Environmental Scientist and Campaigner.

Episode 37. ALP Leadership Debate
2013-09-30 · 60 min

Panellists: Anthony Albanese, Labor MP for Grayndler; and Bill Shorten, Labor MP for Maribyrnong.

Episode 38. Corruption, China & Carbon
2013-10-07 · 60 min

Panellists: Greg Hunt, Minister for the Environment; Kate Ellis, Labor MP; Viv Benjamin, CEO of the Oaktree Foundation; Luo Xiaopeng, Chinese economist and political analyst; and Greg Sheridan, Foreign Affairs Editor, The Australian.

Episode 39. Fireworks, Free Trade & Indigenous Issues
2013-10-14 · 60 min

Panellists: Arthur Sinodinos, Assistant Treasurer; Penny Wong, South Australian Labor Senator; Warren Mundine, Chair of the Indigenous Advisory Council; Jeff McMullen, Journalist and author; and Lally Katz, Playwright.

Episode 40. Fires, Illegals & Rorts
2013-10-21 · 60 min

Panellists: Barnaby Joyce, Minister for Agriculture; Tony Burke, Labor frontbencher; Amanda Vanstone, Former Howard Government Minister; Vince Sorrenti, Comedian; and Rabia Siddique, Lawyer and Author Equal Justice.

Episode 41. Independent Thinkers & Independent Schools
2013-10-28 · 60 min

Panellists: Christopher Pyne, Education Minister; Joel Fitzgibbon, Shadow Minister for Agriculture; Ray Martin, Journalist and author; Wendy Harmer, Editor in Chief, The Hoopla; and Judith Sloan, Economist and businesswoman.

Episode 42. From the Festival of Dangerous Ideas
2013-11-04 · 60 min

Panellists: Peter Hitchens, Journalist and author; Germaine Greer, Feminist icon and provocateur; Hanna Rosin, Senior editor of The Atlantic; and Dan Savage, Sex Advice Author and Gay Activist.

Episode 43. Open For Business
2013-11-11 · 60 min

Panellists: David Knox, Managing Director and CEO, Santos Ltd; Carol Schwartz, Chair of the Women's Leadership Institute; John Symond, Founder, Aussie Home Loans; Elizabeth Proust, Chair of Nestle Australia; and Graham Bradley,…

Episode 44. India: More than Bollywood and Batsmen
2013-11-18 · 60 min

Panellists: Shashi Tharoor, Diplomat and Minister of State for HR Development; Pallavi Sharda, Australian-born Bollywood star; Swapan Dasgupta, Senior Indian journalist and political commentator; Shoma Chaudhury, Managing Editor of news…

Episode 45. Spying, Sorry & Free Speech
2013-11-25 · 60 min

Panellists: Yulia Supadmo, Indonesian Senior Journalist; Josh Frydenberg, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister; Chris Bowen, Shadow Treasurer; Kurt Campbell, Lowy Institute Distinguished International Fellow; Tara Moss, Author;…

Season 7
43 episodes · 2014
Episode 1. The ABC of Treachery
2014-02-03 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Minister for Agriculture Barnaby Joyce; Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; comedian Akmal Saleh; journalist and author Ray Martin; Head of ACOSS Cassandra Goldie; author and columnist Nick Cater.

Episode 2. Sochi, Inquiries & Subsidies
2014-02-10 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, comedian Dave Hughes, Australian Women Chamber of Commerce's Yolanda Vega, The Australian columnist Janet Albrechtsen.

Episode 3. A Vision for the Future
2014-02-17 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Employment Minister Eric Abetz; Finance Shadow Minister Tony Burke; Reserve Bank of Australia board member Heather Ridout; Youth without Borders' Yassmin Abdel-Magied; UQ Law Professor James Allan.

Episode 4. Riots, Reforms & Resilience
2014-02-24 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Assistant Minister for Infrastructure Jamie Briggs; Shadow Minister for Infrastructure Anthony Albanese; ACTU President Ged Kearney; MP Clive Palmer; Gulf War veteran Brigadier General Rhonda Cornum.

Episode 5. From Qantas to Manus
2014-03-03 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Parliamentary Secretary to the PM Josh Frydenberg; Shadow Communications Minister Jason Clare; Chair of Manufacturing Australia Sue Morphet; musician David Bridie & editor-in-chief Katharine Viner.

Episode 6. Vilification, Discrimination & Defamation
2014-03-10 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Attorney-General George Brandis; Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen; Professor of Indigenous Studies Marcia Langton; journalist Lisa Wilkinson; The Australian's media editor Sharri Markson.

Episode 7. Biennale, Babies and Blokes
2014-03-17 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by British musician Billy Bragg; The Hoopla's Wendy Harmer; Christian intellectual Miroslav Volf; Assistant Education Minister Sussan Ley; and Shadow Environment Minister Mark Butler.

Episode 8. Mad Monday
2014-03-24 · 60 min

Live from the Melbourne Recital Centre. Tony Jones is joined by actress Rachel Griffiths; media identity Eddie McGuire; trucking magnate Lindsay Fox; Liberal MP Kelly O'Dwyer; Shadow Immigration Minister Richard Marles.

Episode 9. Human Rights and Wrongs
2014-03-31 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Egyptian author Mona Eltahawy; Human Rights Watch's Kenneth Roth; Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson; Somalian human rights activist Ilwad Elman; The Observer's ethics columnist Lucy Siegle.

Episode 10. China: Evolution not Revolution
2014-04-07 · 60 min

Tony Jones hosts this special edition live from Shanghai. Joined by Former Ambassador to China Dr. Geoff Raby; Businesswoman and media executive Mei Yan; Greenpeace East Asia Program Director Ma Tianjie; Television Presenter Cheng Lei;…

Episode 11. Pensions, Promises & Power
2014-04-14 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Minister for Human Services Marise Payne; Opposition Senate leader Penny Wong; Restaurateur and chef Michelle Garnaut; conservative economist Judith Sloan; Tasmanian Senator-Elect Jacqui Lambie.

Episode 12. Lobbyists, Lies & Libertarians
2014-04-21 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by former Foreign Minister Bob Carr; former NSW Opposition leader Kerry Chikarovski; author and social analyst Eva Cox; Spiked Online editor Brendan O'Neill; British violinist Nigel Kennedy.

Episode 13. Death and Taxes
2014-04-28 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel will be: Minister For Communications, Malcolm Turnbull; Shadow Minister Doug Cameron; editor Sarrah Le Marquand; TV presenter Andrew Neil and playwright Van Badham.

Episode 14. Q & Anarchy
2014-05-05 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Education Minister Christopher Pyne; Former Speaker of the House Anna Burke; actor and comedian aka 'Bob Downe' Mark Trevorrow; human rights lawyer Pallavi Sinha; IPA Executive Director John Roskam.

Episode 15. Loopholes & Heavy Lifting
2014-05-12 · 60 min

On Budget Eve, Tony Jones is joined by Victorian Liberal MP Sharman Stone; Labor Member for Perth Alannah MacTiernan; journalist David Marr; finance expert Satyajit Das; Australian Industry Group's Innes Willox.

Episode 16. Tough Questions for Joe Hockey
2014-05-19 · 60 min

Treasurer Joe Hockey will be the sole panellist in this post-Budget special hosted by Tony Jones. Live from Penrith, in Sydney's western suburbs.

Episode 17. Demos, Heroes and Menopause
2014-05-26 · 60 min

Live from Sydney Writers' Festival. Tony Jones is joined by singer Kate Ceberano, author Tara Moss, novelist Richard Flanagan, comedian and author Jean Kittson, artist Tim Storrier.

Episode 18. School Chaplains and Science Cuts
2014-06-02 · 60 min

Host Tony Jones is joined by Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi, Shadow Health Minister Catherine King; Former Lord Mayor of Sydney Lucy Turnbull; Spectator Australia's Rowan Dean; Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss.

Episode 19. Primates, Populism and Utopia
2014-06-09 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by primatologist Jane Goodall; art educator Betty Churcher; conservative intellectual Peter Coleman; Indigenous leader Rosalie Kunoth-Monks; and Sydney Peace Foundation's Stuart Rees.

Episode 20. Dating, Diplomacy & Disputes
2014-06-16 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Parliamentary Secretary to the PM Josh Frydenberg; rising Labor star Ed Husic; author and advertising director Dee Madigan; Fijian women's advocate Virisila Buadromo; Law professor James Allan.

Episode 21. Big Ideas for a Big Country
2014-06-23 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined venture capitalist Mark Carnegie; former Federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham; author and social analyst Eva Cox; National Commission of Audit Chair Tony Shepherd; youth advocate Holly Ransom.

Episode 22. Giddy Up Geelong
2014-06-30 · 60 min

Live from Geelong. Tony Jones is joined by Liberal MP Sarah Henderson; Shadow Immigration Minister Richard Marles; Greens Senator Richard Di Natale; Geelong Mayor Darryn Lyons; and Geelong Region Alliance CEO Elaine Carbines.

Episode 23. It's the economy, stupid!
2014-07-07 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Nobel Prize-winning American economist Joseph Stiglitz; distinguished government adviser Ross Garnaut; Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies' Christine Wong; and academic and columnist Judith Sloan.

Episode 24. Conversations in Violence, Secrecy & Education
2014-07-14 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Chief Government Whip Philip Ruddock; Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; comedian Charlie Pickering; Cape York Indigenous leader Tania Major; Headmaster of The King's School Tim Hawkes.

Episode 25. Living with HIV, Looking to the Future
2014-07-21 · 60 min

Host Tony Jones is joined by former High Court Judge Michael Kirby; Indonesian Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi; co-discoverer of HIV Françoise Barré-Sinoussi,; former Liberal Senator Amanda Vanstone; HIV activist Nic Holas.

Episode 26. Who Dunnit and How Do We Fix It?
2014-07-28 · 60 min

On the panel: Hercule Poirot aka actor David Suchet; The Nationals Deputy Leader Barnaby Joyce; Environment Shadow Minister Mark Butler; PM's Literary Awards Fiction Chair Louise Adler; Joe Hockey's biographer Madonna King.

Episode 27. Live from Garma Festival, Arnhem Land
2014-08-04 · 60 min

Live from North East Arnhem Land, Tony Jones is joined by Noel Pearson; Nova Peris; Ken Wyatt; Djawa Yunipingu; Joe Morrison; and Dhanggal Gurruwiwi.

Episode 28. Theology, Terror and Metadata
2014-08-11 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by former Labor Minister Greg Combet; Assistant Minister for Education Sussan Ley; Editor of FreedomWatch Simon Breheny; visiting Christian scholar John Stackhouse; human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson.

Episode 29. Class, Cooling and Corruption
2014-08-18 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss; Labor Senate Leader Penny Wong; Leader of the Palmer United Party Clive Palmer; Chair of AustralianSuper Heather Ridout; social justice advocate Dr John Falzon.

Episode 30. Team Australia, Terror and Tinderboxes
2014-08-25 · 60 min

Live from Melbourne Writers Festival. Tony Jones joined by former Foreign Minister Gareth Evans; political journalist Paul Kelly; Indonesian observer Elizabeth Pisani; Iranian-Australian author Ali Alizadeh; cross-cultural consultant…

Episode 31. 100% Women 100% Dangerous
2014-09-01 · 60 min

From the Festival of Dangerous Ideas: American novelist Alissa Nutting; Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho; American commentator Kay Hymowitz; Australian feminist Jane Caro; Swedish anarcho-feminist Kajsa Ekis Ekman.

Episode 32. Rupert, ISIS, ICAC & Super Freeze
2014-09-08 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by arts and media executive Kim Williams; Liberal Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells; Labor Senator Sam Dastyari; investigative journalist Kate McClymont; political satirist Jonathan Biggins.

Episode 33. Science: Precious Petals to Passionate Teachers
2014-09-15 · 60 min

To discuss the future of science, Tony Jones is joined by molecular biologist Suzanne Cory, immunologist Peter Doherty; astrophysicist Brian Schmidt; Young Australian of the Year Marita Cheng; Chief Scientist Ian Chubb.

Episode 34. Be Alert but not Alarmed
2014-09-22 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Minister for Justice Michael Keenan, Shadow Attorney General Mark Dreyfus, counter terrorism expert Anne Azza Aly, Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, author and former lawyer Randa Abdel-Fattah.

Episode 35. Earning, Learning and Yearning
2014-09-29 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Education Minister Christopher Pyne; former Treasurer Wayne Swan; Head of the Australian Chamber of Commerce Kate Carnell; political editor Australian Financial Review Laura Tingle; actor Tony Barry.

Episode 36. Mental As in Rockhampton
2014-10-06 · 60 min

To discuss mental health issues in regional Australia, Tony Jones is joined by psychiatrist Patrick McGorry; comedian Josh Thomas; mental health practitioner Louise Byrne; ACRRMH's Jennifer Bowers; Independent MP Bob Katter.

Episode 37. Watching Watchers and Saving Lives
2014-10-13 · 60 min

With Catherine McGregor, advisor to Chief of the Air Force; human rights advocate Julian Burnside; The Australian's Greg Sheridan; Inquiry into Residential Housing Chair Kelly O'Dwyer; Shadow Education Minister Kate Ellis.

Episode 38. Time Travel, Teaching and The Meaning of Life
2014-10-20 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by a panel of passionate people: physicist and former rock star Brian Cox; rapper Matt Colwell aka 360; conductor Richard Gill; mathematician Nalini Joshi; actor Miranda Tapsell.

Episode 39. Ideology, Legacy and History
2014-10-27 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson; Assistant Defence Minister Stuart Robert; Shadow Health Minister Catherine King; Gough Whitlam's biographer Jenny Hocking; Australian Spectator's Rowan Dean.

Episode 40. National Security: Finding A Balance
2014-11-03 · 60 min

Toughening terror laws - Attorney General George Brandis joins host Tony Jones on the panel, live from Bankstown.

Episode 41. This is your Brain on Climate Change
2014-11-10 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield; Minister for the Environment Greg Hunt; Shadow Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese; Youth Representative to the UN Laura John; the IPA's James Paterson.

Episode 42. From Political Summit to Political Satire
2014-11-17 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull; Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; comedy writer and author Ben Elton; journalist Jonathan Holmes; opinion editor Sarrah Le Marquand.

Episode 43. Public Life and Public Progress
2014-11-24 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Indigenous leader Noel Pearson; celebrated actor James Cromwell; former Howard Government Minister Amanda Vanstone; G20 Youth Summit chair Holly Ransom; RN Drive host Waleed Aly.

Season 8
43 episodes · 2015
Episode 1. Elections, Economics & Knightmares
2015-02-02 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Former ALP Treasurer, Wayne Swan; Minister for Agriculture, Barnaby Joyce; Greens Senator for Queensland, Larissa Waters; and Independent Senators, John Madigan and Jacqui Lambie.

Episode 2. Spills, Bills, Coal & Kills
2015-02-09 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by broadcaster Alan Jones; Assistant Infrastructure Minister Jamie Briggs; Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen, Chair of AustralianSuper Heather Ridout; and comedian and writer Corrine Grant.

Episode 3. Death, Detention and Defending Policies
2015-02-16 · 60 min

Panellists Malcolm Turnbull, Minister for Communications; Catherine King, Shadow Health Minister; Lisa Wilkinson, Journalist; Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative; & Greg Sheridan, Foreign Affairs Editor, The Australian.

Episode 4. Family Violence Special
2015-02-23 · 60 min

Panellists: Aus of the Year, Rosie Batty; Aus Ambassador for Women, Natasha Stott Despoja; Acting VIC Police Commissioner, Tim Cartwright; Indigenous anti-violence campaigner, Charlie King; & Men's Counsellor, Simon Santosha.

Episode 5. Economics, Regulations & One Word
2015-03-02 · 60 min

Panellists: Star of stage and screen, Miriam Margolyes; Assistant Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg; Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Andrew Leigh; Centre for Independent Studies, Trisha Jha; & Editor In Chief of Mamamia, Jamila Rizvi.

Episode 6. Bad Feminism: Contradictions and Careers
2015-03-09 · 60 min

To celebrate 40 years of IWD a special Q&A with guest host Annabel Crabb. Annabel Crabb guest hosts Q&A with a panel including Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop; Feminist icon, Germaine Greer; Author, Roxane Gay; CEO of Best & Less, Holly…

Episode 7. Intergenerational Wealth and Health
2015-03-16 · 60 min

An Intergenerational Report special. Joining Tony Jones is Treasurer Joe Hockey; Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen; ACOSS CEO Cassandra Goldie; CEO of Australian Chamber of Commerce Kate Carnell & public policy expert John Daley.

Episode 8. When the Bush came to Town
2015-03-23 · 60 min

Live from the Royal Easter Show, Tony Jones is joined by National Party Senator Fiona Nash; Shadow Minister for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon; Country musician Troy-Cassar-Daley; Orchardist Robyn Clubb; and cattleman Rob Cook.

Episode 9. Depression, Drugs and Another Planet
2015-03-30 · 60 min

Host Tony Jones is joined by panellists Education Minister Christopher Pyne; Opposition Senate Leader Penny Wong; Comedian Ruby Wax; Musician and humanitarian Michael Franti & Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Brian Schmidt.

Episode 10. Political Tensions and Children in Detention
2015-04-06 · 60 min

Greek musical legend Nana Mouskouri joins Tony Jones on the Q&A panel with: Parl Sec to the Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer; Labor Member Ed Husic; Australian Financial Review Editor, Michael Stutchbury; & playwright Van Badham.

Episode 11. Vaccinations, Press Freedoms & Forced Closures
2015-04-13 · 60 min

Panellists: Journalist Peter Greste; Asst Minister for Social Services Mitch Fifield; Shadow Parl Sec for Regional Development Alannah MacTiernan; CEO Regional Aus Institute Su McCluskey; & NITV News' Malarndirri McCarthy.

Episode 12. Drinking, Depression and Deportation
2015-04-20 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones: Journalist Derryn Hinch; Minister for Trade & Investment, Andrew Robb; Former Speaker of the House, Anna Burke; Comedian Dave Hughes; CEO of the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, Jane Burns.

Episode 13. ANZAC Spirit, Modern Warfare and Marriage
2015-04-27 · 60 min

On the panel this week: Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos; Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; Former deputy PM Tim Fischer; Historian Carolyn Holbrook; & Deputy Program Director, Human Rights Watch Tom Porteous.

Episode 14. Assault, Altruism and Emissions
2015-05-04 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Philosopher & ethicist, Peter Singer; Environment Minister, Greg Hunt; Shadow Environment Minister, Mark Butler; Broadcaster & commentator, Amanda Vanstone; & US performer, Adrienne Truscott.

Episode 15. Struggle Street on Budget Eve
2015-05-11 · 60 min

Panellists: Clive Palmer, Leader of the Palmer United Party; Christian Porter, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister; Nakkiah Lui, Playwright; Jason Clare, Shadow Communications Minister; and Jennifer Hewett, Political journalist.

Episode 16. Death Cults, Brains & Migration
2015-05-18 · 60 min

On the Q&A panel this week, we feature some of the brightest stars from this year's Sydney Writers' Festival: Norman Doidge; Caitlin Doughty; Douglas Coupland; Mohsin Hamid and Christina Lamb.

Episode 17. Joe Hockey on the Tradies vs Ladies Budget
2015-05-25 · 60 min

This week Tony Jones is joined by the Treasurer of Australia, Joe Hockey to face a LIVE studio audience & respond directly to their post-budget questions.

Episode 18. War Cries, Citizenship & Crime Prevention
2015-06-01 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones LIVE on the panel: Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg; Shadow Minister for Infrastructure Anthony Albanese; Actor and elder Jack Charles; Policy analyst Miriam Lyons; and Businesswoman Judith Sloan.

Episode 19. Revolutionary Christianity, Citizenship & Incarceration
2015-06-08 · 60 min

Panellists: Christine Forster, City of Sydney Councillor; Dr Cornel West, Scholar and Poet; Philip Ruddock, Special Envoy for Citizenship; Katy Gallagher, Senator for the Australian Capital Territory; and Bates Gill, CEO of US Studies…

Episode 20. Magna Carta Magna QandA
2015-06-15 · 60 min

Q&A marks the 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta with an episode from Parliament House in Canberra. Joining Tony Jones on the panel are Bronwyn Bishop, Noel Pearson, Gillian Triggs, Luca Belgiorno-Nettis & Bret Walker.

Episode 21. Terror, Poverty & Native Titles
2015-06-22 · 60 min

Panellists: singer ANOHNI Hegarty; Parl. Sec for Foreign Affairs Steve Ciobo; Shad Min. for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon; lobbyist Grahame Morris; Advertising director Dee Madigan; & anti-poverty campaigner Linda Tirado.

Episode 22. Radicalisation, Religion & Recognition
2015-06-29 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Dep Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; Editor-at-large The Australian Paul Kelly; Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss; Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson; counter-terrorism expert Dr. Anne Aly.

Episode 23. Greece, Gags & Grazing Land
2015-07-06 · 60 min

On the panel: Vrasidas Karalis, Professor of Modern Greek; Shadow Minister for Immigration Richard Marles; Greens Senator Larissa Waters; policy analyst Trisha Jha & foreign affairs editor Greg Sheridan.

Episode 24. Peace, Ideology & Free Speech
2015-07-13 · 60 min

On the panel: Former Liberal leader John Hewson, Shadow Assistant Minister for Education Amanda Rishworth, war correspondent Michael Ware, scholar John Stackhouse, and Director of Polling at the Lowy Institute Alex Oliver.

Episode 25. Choppers, Coal & Community
2015-07-20 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Former Deputy PM, Tim Fischer; Broadcaster, Alan Jones; Senator, Jacqui Lambie; Shadow Environment Minister, Mark Butler & Mining and development strategist Katherine Teh-White.

Episode 26. Culture of Change
2015-07-27 · 60 min

Joining Virginia Trioli LIVE from Brisbane: QLD Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk; Catholic Archbishop Mark Coleridge; Fmr Nats Senator Ron Boswell; Policy Analyst Prof Anne Tiernan; Innovation Strategist Monica Bradley.

Episode 27. New Frontiers & Next Bold Missions
2015-08-03 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Director of NY's Hayden Planetarium Neil de Grasse Tyson; Oncologist and author Ranjana Srivastava; Broadcaster and maths geek Adam Spencer; and Marine ecologist Beth Fulton.

Episode 28. Perks, Penalty Rates & Life in Space
2015-08-10 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones: astronaut Chris Hadfield; Assistant Minister for Vocational Education Sharon Bird; author/feminist Anne Summers; Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and journalist Joe Hildebrand.

Episode 29. Ethics, Equality & Evasion
2015-08-17 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the Q&A panel: Greens leader Richard Di Natale; Parl Sec to the Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer; Labor Senator Sam Dastyari; British Editor Brendan O'Neill; and Traditional marriage advocate Katy Faust.

Episode 30. Public Life & Political Memoirs
2015-08-24 · 60 min

Joining Virginia Trioli from the Melbourne Writers Festival, publisher Louise Adler; Former Qld Premier Anna Bligh; Former Howard Cabinet insider Peter Reith; Former Independent MP Tony Windsor; & author Annabel Crabb.

Episode 31. Cheating, Climate, War & Democracy
2015-08-31 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones live from the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney Opera House: Climate activist Naomi Klein; Christian philosopher Miroslav Volf; Tariq Ali; Feminist Laurie Penny & American Review Editor Tom Switzer.

Episode 32. Drowning in Desperation to Dying with Dignity
2015-09-07 · 60 min

Panellists: NSW Premier, Mike Baird; Shadow Treasurer, Chris Bowen; Pres of Business Council of Aus, Catherine Livingstone; Human Rights Lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson & International Editor of The Economist, Helen Joyce.

Episode 33. A New Prime Minister, New Leadership
2015-09-14 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Folk legend Joan Baez; Former Liberal leader John Hewson; Labor member for Griffith, Terri Butler; World Vision CEO Tim Costello; and Editor of The Spectator Australia, Rowan Dean.

Episode 34. Bill Shorten in Ballarat
2015-09-21 · 60 min

Live from Ballarat. This week we dissect the policies of the federal opposition, when Tony Jones is joined on the panel for a special one on one with Bill Shorten, the leader of the Australian Labor Party.

Episode 35. Conservatives, China & Chris Brown
2015-09-28 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce; Shadow Health Minister Catherine King; Journalist David Marr; Museum Director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor & Executive Director of the IPA, John Roskam.

Episode 36. Shine a Light on Depression
2015-10-05 · 60 min

Mental As Q&A shines a light on depression - one of the most common yet misunderstood mental illnesses in Australia. On the panel: Ian Hickie; Wayne Schwass; Professor Pat Dudgeon; Fay Jackson; and Dr. Roderick McKay.

Episode 37. Social Cohesion, Offshore Detention & Factions
2015-10-12 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Australia's first indigenous Federal Minister Ken Wyatt; Labor Senator Lisa Singh; Greens MP Adam Bandt; Muslim Community Leader Sheikh Wesam Charkawi; and soprano Tania de Jong.

Episode 38. Friends and Allies in Foreign Policy
2015-10-19 · 60 min

A foreign affairs special panel: Former Foreign Minister Bob Carr; CEO Lowy Institute Michael Fullilove; Former diplomat Alison Broinowski; Director Of Advocacy, Human Rights Law Centre Emily Howie; Melbourne Uni's Sow Keat Tok.

Episode 39. Country Life, CSG and Cannabis
2015-10-26 · 60 min

Live from Toowoomba with guest host Tom Ballard. Panellists: Rural Health Mininister Fiona Nash; Shadow Minister for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon; Southern Qld Uni's Jan Thomas; Toowoomba Mayor Paul Antonio; Singer Katie Noonan.

Episode 40. GST, Gonski, Population and Diversity
2015-11-02 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: ecologist & biologist Paul Ehrlich; Minister for Education & Training Simon Birmingham; Shadow Finance Minister Tony Burke; Comedian & Broadcaster Wendy Harmer & Businesswoman Dai Le.

Episode 41. Facing Death
2015-11-09 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones are Broadcaster Andrew Denton; doctor/author Karen Hitchcock; palliative care specialist Ralph McConaghy; terminal cancer patient Ana Lamaro & doctor/euthanasia advocate Rodney Syme.

Episode 42. Paris, Syria & South Australia
2015-11-16 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones in Adelaide: French Ambassador Christophe Lecourtier, security consultant Andrew MacLeod, Federal Minister Christopher Pyne; Shadow Minister Kate Ellis; Sen. Nick Xenophon & youth advocate Holly Ransom.

Episode 43. Racists, Extremists and Economists
2015-11-23 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones are Environment Minister Greg Hunt; Anthony Albanese; Geraldine Brooks; Former Finance Minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis; Judith Sloan & from the Australian Muslim Women's Centre Tasneem Chopra.

Season 9
Season 9
43 episodes · 2016
Great Australians
Episode 1. Great Australians
2016-02-01 · 60 min

Tony Jones hosts a special featuring 2016 Australian of the Year David Morrison; Catherine Keenan; Senior Australian of the Year Gordian Fulde; Indigenous Affairs Editor Stan Grant & SA Finalist Young Australian of the Year Manal Younus.

Corruption, Penalty Rates & Public Health
Episode 2. Corruption, Penalty Rates & Public Health
2016-02-08 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones in Melbourne: Minister for Rural Health Fiona Nash; Shadow Minister for Health Catherine King; Radio Host Neil Mitchell; IR Commentator & Columnist, Grace Collier & ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver.

Polls, Property and Processing
Episode 3. Polls, Property and Processing
2016-02-15 · 60 min

Joining host Tony Jones on the panel in our Sydney studio is Deputy Leader of the National Party, Barnaby Joyce; Labor MP, Terri Butler; Greens Senator, Sarah Hanson-Young and Canadian conservative commentator, Mark Steyn; and political…

Hybrid War to Hot War
Episode 4. Hybrid War to Hot War
2016-02-22 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel are Justice Minister Michael Keenan; Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Tanya Plibersek; Counter-insurgency expert David Kilcullen; Raihan Ismail & Israeli journalist Eldad Beck.

Safe Schools, Sniping and Senators
Episode 5. Safe Schools, Sniping and Senators
2016-02-29 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones from Melbourne: Australian Christian Lobby's Lyle Shelton; Former AMA President Kerryn Phelps; CEO of Roy Morgan Research Michele Levine; Former Small Business Minister Bruce Billson & Labor MP Anna Burke.

Peta, Priests and Presidents
Episode 6. Peta, Priests and Presidents
2016-03-07 · 60 min

Celebrating International Women's Day: Minister for Women & Employment Michaelia Cash; Opp Leader in the Senate Penny Wong; Co-founder of Mamamia Mia Freedman; Broadcaster Alan Jones & Host of HuffPost Live Josh Zepps.

String Theory, Sea Turtles, AI and Pi
Episode 7. String Theory, Sea Turtles, AI and Pi
2016-03-14 · 60 min

Tony Jones hosts a science special featuring: physicist, Brian Greene; astrophysicist, Tamara Davis; Australia's Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel; Marine ecologist, Emma Johnston & molecular biologist, Upulie Divisekera.

ABCC, Double D and Rioting
Episode 8. ABCC, Double D and Rioting
2016-03-21 · 60 min

Live from Melbourne with: Minister for Energy & Resources Josh Frydenberg; Vic Premier Daniel Andrews; Tas Senator Jacqui Lambie; Feminist commentator Clementine Ford; and Chair of Bank of Melbourne Elizabeth Proust.

Innovation, Collaboration & NBN
Episode 9. Innovation, Collaboration & NBN
2016-03-28 · 60 min

An Innovation special, joining Tony Jones are Assist. Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy; Opp spokesman on Digital Innovation Ed Husic; entrepreneur Holly Ransom; Quantum physicist Michael Biercuk & Sandy Plunkett.

Federation, Funding, Disability and Disunity
Episode 10. Federation, Funding, Disability and Disunity
2016-04-04 · 60 min

Live from Adelaide: Leader of the House Christopher Pyne; Shadow Asst Education Minister Amanda Rishworth; Dignity for Disability Party's Kelly Vincent; Journalist Greg Sheridan & political satirist Sameena Zehra.

Alcohol, Violence, Sugar and Shakespeare
Episode 11. Alcohol, Violence, Sugar and Shakespeare
2016-04-11 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel are Feminist icon Germaine Greer; author and columnist Theodore Dalrymple; Liberal MP Sharman Stone; Tasmanian Labor Senator Lisa Singh and Aria award winning musician Joseph Tawadros.

Dissolution, Disappointment and Tears
Episode 12. Dissolution, Disappointment and Tears
2016-04-18 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones are Liberal MP Ewen Jones; Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development Alannah MacTiernan; former Liberal Party leader John Hewson; journalist Caroline Overington & commentator Jane Caro.

Church and State
Episode 13. Church and State
2016-04-25 · 60 min

Joining host Julia Baird on the panel; Professor John Haldane; journalist Julie McCrossin; Indigenous Anglican Pastor Ray Minniecon; Rev. Tiffany Sparks & Managing Dir. of the Australian Christian Lobby Lyle Shelton.

Reforms, Representatives and Re-Election
Episode 14. Reforms, Representatives and Re-Election
2016-05-02 · 60 min

On the eve of Treasurer Scott Morrison's first budget we ask: Is our political system up to the challenges of the 21st Century? On the panel: James Fallows; Laura Tingle; George Megalogenis; Iain Walker and Pru Goward.

Budget, Billionaires and Battlers
Episode 15. Budget, Billionaires and Battlers
2016-05-09 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones live in Melbourne are Minister for Small Business Kelly O'Dwyer; Shadow Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh; Greens MP Adam Bandt; Head of ACOSS Cassandra Goldie & CEO Of Australian Industry Group Innes Willox.

Free Will, Free Speech and Criticising Islam
Episode 16. Free Will, Free Speech and Criticising Islam
2016-05-16 · 60 min

In conjunction with the Sydney Writers' Festival, Q&A presents some of the literary world's best minds including: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Kate Tempest, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Julian Baggini & Emma Sky.

Debate: Pyne vs Albanese
Episode 17. Debate: Pyne vs Albanese
2016-05-23 · 60 min

Joining host Tony Jones on the panel will be Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science Christopher Pyne in a one-on-one debate with the Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Cities Anthony Albanese.

Balance of Power
Episode 18. Balance of Power
2016-05-30 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones in Brisbane are Trade Minister Steve Ciobo; Greens leader Richard Di Natale; South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon; Labor member for Griffith Terri Butler; Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie.

Tussle in Tamworth
Episode 19. Tussle in Tamworth
2016-06-06 · 60 min

Tony Jones in Tamworth with Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce; Shadow Minister for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon; Independent Candidate Tony Windsor; Vice Pres of Nat Farmers' Fed Fiona Simson & farmer/businesswoman Robbie Sefton.

Bill Shorten
Episode 20. Bill Shorten
2016-06-13 · 60 min

The Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten joins Tony Jones in a special one-on-one Q&A event from Penrith in Greater Western Sydney.

Malcolm Turnbull
Episode 21. Malcolm Turnbull
2016-06-20 · 60 min

In his much-anticipated first appearance on Q&A since becoming the Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull will join Tony Jones for a special one-on-one event, from the Brisbane Powerhouse.

Brexit Fallout, Indigenous People and Young Voices
Episode 22. Brexit Fallout, Indigenous People and Young Voices
2016-06-27 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Finance Minister Mathias Cormann; Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; Economic Analyst Chris Richardson; Professor of Indigenous Studies Marcia Langton & Broadcaster Alan Jones.

Minority Government and Division
Episode 23. Minority Government and Division
2016-07-04 · 60 min

On the panel: Minister for Resources & Energy Josh Frydenberg; Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen; SA Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young; Editor-at-large The Australian Paul Kelly; entrepreneur & youth advocate Holly Ransom.

Liberal Split, Senate Vote and Chilcot
Episode 24. Liberal Split, Senate Vote and Chilcot
2016-07-11 · 60 min

On the panel Live from Melbourne: Attorney-General George Brandis; Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; Senator-elect Derryn Hinch; weekly columnist, Guardian Australia Van Badham; and broadcaster Steve Price.

Senate Powerbrokers
Episode 25. Senate Powerbrokers
2016-07-18 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by the Senate powerbrokers: Education Minister Simon Birmingham; Labor Senator Sam Dastyari; Greens Senator Larissa Waters; NXT Senator Nick Xenophon & Queensland Senator-elect Pauline Hanson.

Incarceration, Islam and Innovation
Episode 26. Incarceration, Islam and Innovation
2016-07-25 · 60 min

Joining guest host Virginia Trioli on the panel: Assistant Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science Craig Laundy; Labor MP Ed Husic; Cape York Institute's Shireen Morris; and Reverend Peter Kurti.

Rudd, Rehabilitation and Animal Ethics
Episode 27. Rudd, Rehabilitation and Animal Ethics
2016-08-01 · 60 min

Joining guest host Virginia Trioli in Melbourne: Resources Minister Matt Canavan, Tasmanian Labor Senator Lisa Singh, Philosopher/ethicist Peter Singer, writer Celeste Liddle, Former CEO Committee for Melbourne Kate Roffey.

US Election Special
Episode 28. US Election Special
2016-08-08 · 60 min

Giving their take on the US election is political satirist PJ O'Rourke; equality campaigner Linda Tirado; former foreign minister Bob Carr; counter-terrorism adviser Lydia Khalil and US policy analyst Crispin Rovere.

Experts and Empirical Evidence
Episode 29. Experts and Empirical Evidence
2016-08-15 · 60 min

On the panel: Science superstar Brian Cox; Minister for Industry, Innovation & Science Greg Hunt; Shadow Minister for Human Services Linda Burney; One Nation senator-elect Malcolm Roberts & mathematician Lily Serna.

Racism, Revenge Porn & Nauru
Episode 30. Racism, Revenge Porn & Nauru
2016-08-22 · 60 min

On the panel from Melbourne: Minister for Communications Mitch Fifield; Shadow Health Minister Catherine King; Comedian/writer Corinne Grant; Editor of Spiked Online Brendan O'Neill & academic Erin Watson-Lynn.

Social Determinants of Health
Episode 31. Social Determinants of Health
2016-08-29 · 60 min

On the panel: Pres World Medical Assoc Michael Marmot; Chair of PM's Indigenous Advisory Council Warren Mundine; Head of ACOSS Cassandra Goldie; Prof of Economics Deborah Cobb-Clark; Dean of Medicine Christine Bennett.

Over 400 Years of Shakespeare
Episode 32. Over 400 Years of Shakespeare
2016-09-05 · 60 min

From the Sydney Opera House we mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare with: Scholar Germaine Greer; Bell Shakespeare Company's John Bell; Actor Kate Mulvany; Philosopher AC Grayling & Actor Kylie Farmer.

Guns, Diversity and Donations
Episode 33. Guns, Diversity and Donations
2016-09-12 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel are: Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie; Labor Senator Doug Cameron: Greens Senator Larissa Waters: Editor of Spectator Australia Rowan Dean & suspended Liberal Party member Dai Le.

Marriage Equality, Migrants and Masculinity
Episode 34. Marriage Equality, Migrants and Masculinity
2016-09-19 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Rock legend Jimmy Barnes; author/comedian Magda Szubanski; Deputy Nationals leader Fiona Nash; Manager of Opposition Business Tony Burke & independent Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie.

Education, Environment and Equality
Episode 35. Education, Environment and Equality
2016-09-26 · 60 min

On tonight's high powered political panel in Adelaide: SA Premier Jay Weatherill; Education & Training Minister Simon Birmingham; Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong & former Liberal Senator Amanda Vanstone.

Renewables, Welfare and Body Image
Episode 36. Renewables, Welfare and Body Image
2016-10-03 · 60 min

On the panel is Minister for Social Services Christian Porter, Shadow Minister for Climate Change & Energy Mark Butler, media executive/author Marina Go, social equity advocate Eva Cox & policy analyst Trisha Jha.

Australia's Sovereign Borders
Episode 37. Australia's Sovereign Borders
2016-10-10 · 60 min

A focus on Australia's refugee policy with #LetThemStay Campaign's Shen Narayanasamy, retired General Jim Molan, priest & Prof. of Law Frank Brennan, the Kaldor Centre's Jane McAdam & refugee/entrepreneur Huy Truong.

Episode 38. Industrial Relations and Respectful Relationships
2016-10-17 · 60 min

On the panel: Leader of The Greens Richard Di Natale; Labor MP for Gellibrand Tim Watts; Economist & businesswoman Judith Sloan; President of ACTU Ged Kearney & Industrial Relations commentator Grace Collier.

Media Influence, Privacy and Secrecy
Episode 39. Media Influence, Privacy and Secrecy
2016-10-24 · 60 min

On the panel: Cabinet Secretary Arthur Sinodinos, Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; Former Editor-in-chief of 'The Australian' Chris Mitchell; investigative journalist Christine Dolan & writer Robert Manne.

Refugee Ban, Backpackers and Cultural Capital
Episode 40. Refugee Ban, Backpackers and Cultural Capital
2016-10-31 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones in Mildura: Health Minister Sussan Ley, Shadow Agriculture Minister Joel Fitzgibbon, I Love Farms' Emma Germano, Sunraysia Mallee Ethnic Communities Council Head Dean Wickham & avocado farmer Katrina Myers.

18C, Trump and Islands Sinking
Episode 41. 18C, Trump and Islands Sinking
2016-11-07 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones: Shadow Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese; Liberal Senator James Paterson; This Changes Everything author Naomi Klein; author Don Watson & Institute of Public Affairs adjunct fellow Georgina Downer.

New World Order
Episode 42. New World Order
2016-11-14 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce; Shadow Education Minister Kate Ellis; policy analyst Helen Andrews, RMIT University Professor Joe Siracusa & Jennifer Hunt from the University of Sydney.

End of the Year, Dawn of an Era
Episode 43. End of the Year, Dawn of an Era
2016-11-21 · 60 min

On the panel: Liberal Senator Eric Abetz; Labor MP Terri Butler; Playwright/actor in Black Comedy Nakkiah Lui; The Australian's Foreign Affairs Editor Greg Sheridan & screenwriter/author Benjamin Law.

Season 10
43 episodes · 2017
Episode 1. Trump, Climate Action and Youths
2017-02-06 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined in Melbourne by Premier of Victoria Daniel Andrews, Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg, policy analyst Helen Andrews, teen climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez & journalist Daisy Cousens.

Episode 2. Blackouts, Childcare, and Migration
2017-02-13 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Vic Senator James Paterson, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education Kate Ellis, Senator Jacqui Lambie, mechanical engineer Yassmin Abdel-Magied & new Democracy Foundation's Luca Belgiorno-Nettis.

Episode 3. Pensions, Debt and NDIS
2017-02-20 · 60 min

Q&A's Tony Jones is joined by Attorney-General George Brandis; Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; Barrister & human rights advocate Julian Burnside; political commentator Piers Akerman & Pollster Michele Levine.

Episode 4. Death and Disruption
2017-02-27 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined in Melbourne by Special Minister of State Scott Ryan, Shadow Justice Minister Clare O'Neil, philosopher Peter Singer, Sustainability Advocate Leyla Acaroglu & Former Abbott Govt Advisor Ted Lapkin.

Episode 5. Strikes, Sexual Assault and Revenge Porn
2017-03-06 · 60 min

Q&A is All About Women, featuring an all-female panel including anti-violence campaigner Thordis Elva, Pulitzer Prize winner Mei Fong, author/performer Lindy West, actor/presenter Faustina Agolley & lawyer Josephine Cashman.

Episode 6. Festival of the Arts
2017-03-13 · 60 min

Q&A from Adelaide Arts Festival with Canadian singer songwriter Martha Wainwright, theatre & film director Neil Armfield, Indigenous actress & singer Ursula Yovich, media & arts executive Kim Williams and more.

Episode 7. The Misinformation Ecosystem
2017-03-20 · 60 min

Q&A takes a look at fake news & the post-truth era with: former director general of Al Jazeera Wadah Khanfar, First Draft News' Claire Wardle, journalist Mark Day, Liberal Senator Zed Seselja & Labor's Terri Butler.

Episode 8. Hunting, Housing and Homeland Security
2017-03-27 · 60 min

With the world reeling from the terror attack in London, Q&A focuses on international security. Tony Jones is joined by Lydia Khalil, Kerry Chikarovski, Amanda Rishworth, Bridget McKenzie, Peter Holmes a Court & Mark Seymour.

Episode 9. Company Tax, Climate Refugees and Cold War
2017-04-03 · 60 min

Q&A features a panel of global thinkers: author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, Former Danish PM & Save the Children CEO Helle Thorning-Schmidt & The Australian's Editor-at-large Paul Kelly.

Episode 10. Assad, Assisted Suicide and Satire
2017-04-10 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones: Minister for Communications Mitch Fifield; Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong; author Nikki Gemmell; Ethicist Margaret Somerville & British political singer-songwriter Billy Bragg.

Episode 11. Citizenships, Skilled Workers and Mushrooms
2017-04-24 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones: Feminist icon Germaine Greer; Assistant Immigration Minister Alex Hawke; Shadow Environment Minister Tony Burke; Victorian Senator Derryn Hinch & Zimbabwean sustainable farming advocate Chido Govera.

Episode 12. Two Veeps and a Satirist
2017-05-01 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones: creator of Veep Armando Iannucci; ANU Vice Chancellor Brian Schmidt; Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce; Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; Research Director of IPSOS Mind & Mood Report Laura Demasi.

Episode 13. Gonski, Veterans and the Budget
2017-05-08 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones: Minister for Veterans' Affairs & Defence Personnel Dan Tehan; Tasmanian Labor Senator Lisa Singh; Comedian Dave Hughes; Taxation lawyer Mark Leibler & CEO of the Urban Development Institute Danni Addison.

Episode 14. Budget, Surplus & Debt
2017-05-15 · 60 min

In a post Budget Q&A special from the Gold Coast, Tony Jones is joined by Education Minister Simon Birmingham; Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen; Greens Senator Larissa Waters; Innes Willox and Miranda Stewart.

Episode 15. Trump, Putin and The End
2017-05-22 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Sydney Writers' Festival guests: journalists Niki Savva & Mikhail Zygar; theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss; Data Editor of The Guardian US Mona Chalabi & Man Booker prize-winner Paul Beatty.

Episode 16. 1967 and Mabo - Moving Forward
2017-05-29 · 60 min

From Parliament House, Canberra this special 1967 & Mabo: Moving Forward marks 50 years since the 1967 referendum & 25 years since Mabo. Guests: Noel Pearson, Pat Anderson, Megan David, Nakkiah Lui & Stan Grant.

Episode 17. Terror, Housing and the NDIS
2017-06-05 · 60 min

On the panel: Social Services Minister Christian Porter; Shadow Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese; NSW Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm; La Trobe University's Judith Brett & actor/advocate Kiruna Stamell.

Episode 18. Australia's Energy Future
2017-06-12 · 60 min

In an Energy special Environment & Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg, Shadow Energy Minister Mark Butler, Australia's Chief Scientist Alan Finkel, Energy Consumers Aus CEO Rosemary Sinclair & Climate Council CEO Amanda McKenzie.

Episode 19. Australian values, Apes and Irrationality
2017-06-19 · 60 min

Guest host Jeremy Fernandez is joined on the panel by Liberal Senator James Paterson, Shadow Human Services Minister Linda Burney, Primatologist Jane Goodall, Research Fellow Peter Kurti & Author Rachel Botsman.

Episode 20. Authenticity, Optics and Taboo
2017-06-26 · 60 min

Joining Virginia Trioli: Tony Blair's Former Press Secretary Alastair Campbell, pollster Anna Greenberg, Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne, Shadow Justice Minister Clare O'Neil & political strategist Grahame Morris.

Episode 21. Incentives, Intervention and Fireworks
2017-07-03 · 60 min

Q&A is coming from Alice Springs, with guest host Virginia Trioli joined by Bob Katter, Warren Snowdon, Jacinta Price, Dale McIver and Josie Douglas.

Episode 22. Adani, Armies and Assaults
2017-07-17 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones: Minister for Resources & Northern Australia Matt Canavan, Queensland Labor MP Terri Butler, British broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, Canadian Christian scholar John Stackhouse & writer/presenter Rachel Corbett.

Episode 23. School Special Victoria
2017-07-24 · 60 min

In a Q&A first, four high school students Pinidu Chandrasekera, Aretha Brown, Jock Maddern & Jacinta Speer join federal politicians Josh Frydenberg & Catherine King on the panel in front of a student-only audience.

Episode 24. Trusts, Trump and Tensions in Asia
2017-07-31 · 60 min

On the panel: Trade Minister Steve Ciobo; Shadow Finance Minister Jim Chalmers; Chinese American writer Mei Fong; Foreign Affairs editor, The Australian Greg Sheridan; Senior economics writer, Fairfax Media Jessica Irvine.

Episode 25. Q&A from Garma Festival 2017
2017-08-07 · 60 min

In a Q&A Special from the Garma Festival in Arnhem Land, guest host Stan Grant is joined by Noel Pearson, Marcia Langton, Nigel Scullion, Denise Bowden, Peter Yu & Djapirri Mununggirritj.

Episode 26. Citizenship, Charlottesville and Surveys
2017-08-14 · 60 min

Tony Jones is back in the Q&A studio with a cracker political panel featuring Liberal Senator Eric Abetz, Labor Senator Sam Dastyari, ANU Law Professor Kim Rubenstein, author Jamila Rizvi & theologian Michael Jensen.

Episode 27. Bill Shorten on Q&A
2017-08-21 · 60 min

In a special Q&A, Tony Jones is joined by the Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten to answer the questions asked by viewers & the studio audience.

Episode 28. Australia Day and Families Divided
2017-08-28 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Attorney-General George Brandis, Manager of Opposition Business Tony Burke, Independent Senator for TAS Jacqui Lambie, City of Sydney Councillor Christine Forster, and singer/songwriter Dan Sultan.

Episode 29. Antifa, Women & Doomsday
2017-09-04 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones are indigenous author Kim Scott, writer/journalist Laurie Penny, Indian diplomat Shashi Tharoor, founder of 'Muslim Girl' Amani Al-Khatahtbeh & Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove.

Episode 30. Consequences, Citizenship and Climate
2017-09-11 · 60 min

Joining Virginia Trioli: Assistant Minister for Social Services & Multicultural Affairs Zed Seselja, Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, SA Senator Lucy Gichuhi, philosopher A.C. Grayling & Israeli MP Merav Michaeli.

Episode 31. Energy, Myanmar and Dreamers
2017-09-18 · 60 min

Jeremy Fernandez is joined by Assistant Minister to the Treasurer Michael Sukkar, Opposition Leader in the Senate Penny Wong, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, industry advocate Emma Herd & journalist Bret Stephens.

Episode 32. Drones, Robots and The Future
2017-10-02 · 60 min

Q&A returns with Assistant Minister for Industry, Innovation & Science Craig Laundy, Shadow Minister for the Digital Economy Ed Husic, Scientist Catherine Ball, Sandra Peter & broadcaster Adam Spencer.

Episode 33. Electricity, Sports and Marriage
2017-10-09 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones in Melbourne are Queensland Nationals Senator Matt Canavan, SA Labor MP Amanda Rishworth, Greens Leader Richard Di Natale, Richmond Tigers President Peggy O'Neal & CEO of Roy Morgan Research Michele Levine.

Episode 34. Trump, Guns and Rock n Roll
2017-10-16 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones this week: Rock icon & author Jimmy Barnes, Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie, Labor MP for Cowan Anne Aly, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Lydia Khalil & Former Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer.

Episode 35. Q&A Same Sex Marriage Debate
2017-10-23 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones for the Q&A Same-Sex Marriage debate: actress and author Magda Szubanski; Anglican Archbishop of Sydney Glenn Davies; Jesuit priest and law professor Frank Brennan; 'No campaign' spokesperson Karina Okotel.

Episode 36. Liability, Instability and Deniability
2017-10-30 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones this week: Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd; The Australian Financial Review Political Editor Laura Tingle; 2GB Radio Broadcaster Alan Jones and La Trobe University Emeritus Professor Judith Brett.

Episode 37. Q&A High School Special 2.0
2017-11-06 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones for our second high school special for 2017: Minister for Education Simon Birmingham, Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek, Geordie Brown, Nadia Homem, Arthur Lim and Lauren McGrath-Wild.

Episode 38. Section 44, Space and Skeptics
2017-11-13 · 60 min

Space, time and intelligent life with rock star physicist Brian Cox. Plus Assistant Minister for Digital Transformation Angus Taylor, QLD Labor MP Terri Butler, economist Judith Sloan & futurist Shara Evans join Tony Jones.

Episode 39. Protections, Preferences & Parliamentarians
2017-11-20 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones this week: Attorney-General George Brandis; Shadow Minister for Employment & Workplace Relations Brendan O'Connor; Greens Senator Janet Rice; Christian radio broadcaster Stephen O'Doherty, and Jacqui Lambie.

Episode 40. Royal Commissions and Election Results
2017-11-27 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Assistant Minister to the PM James McGrath, Qld Labor Senator Murray Watt, Guardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor, The Feed's Jan Fran & former adviser to the PM on Indigenous Affairs Warren Mundine.

Episode 41. Human Rights and Harassment
2017-12-04 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones are Tas Liberal Senator Eric Abetz, Tas Labor Senator Lisa Singh, former President of Aust Human Rights Commission Gillian Triggs, IPA Director of Policy Simon Breheny & Fairfax journalist Kate McClymont.

Episode 42. PM Malcolm Turnbull on Q&A
2017-12-11 · 60 min

He's been bobbing in a sea of political woes but now the polls may be turning. What questions do the Australian people want answered? Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on a special Q&A presented by Virginia Trioli.

Episode 43. Comebacks, Cancer Treatment and Uni Cuts
2017-12-18 · 60 min

Joining Virginia Trioli in Melbourne for the final Q&A of 2017: Health Minister Greg Hunt, Shadow Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese, author Maxine McKew, The Australian's Greg Sheridan, Buzzfeed's Alice Workman.

Season 11
42 episodes · 2018
Episode 1. A Spotlight on the Economy
2018-02-05 · 60 min

Q&A returns to tackle the big issues that set Australians thinking, talking and debating. Tony Jones puts the economy under the spotlight with Sally McManus, Chris Richardson, Heather Ridout, James Pearson and Stephen Mayne.

Episode 2. Nepotism, Referendums & Radical Reform
2018-02-12 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones to face the public's questions are journalist/commentator David Marr, WA Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds, Qld Labor MP Terri Butler, The Australian's Chris Kenny and more.

Episode 3. Civil War, Colonisation and Power
2018-02-19 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on Q&A this week: Environment & Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg, Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen, publisher Louise Adler, IPA Director of Policy Simon Breheny & actress Shareena Clanton.

Episode 4. DPM, Politics and Pay Gaps
2018-02-26 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones: Former Deputy Leader of UK Labour Harriet Harman, Assistant Minister for Science, Jobs & Innovation Zed Seselja, Shadow Justice Minister Clare O'Neil, philosopher A.C. Grayling & author Catherine McGregor.

Episode 5. Family Matters and Home Fires
2018-03-05 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones: Minister for Law Enforcement & Cybersecurity Angus Taylor, Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek, Greens leader Richard Di Natale, author Kamila Shamsie & Daily Telegraph political editor Sharri Markson.

Episode 6. A Big Australia
2018-03-12 · 60 min

A close look at our booming population. Australia has the fastest rate of population growth in the industrialised world, but can we handle 40 million? Panel: Bob Carr, Tim Flannery, Jane Fitzgerald, John Daley and Dr Jay Song.

Episode 7. Tax, Trump and The Polls
2018-03-19 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones are Urban Infrastructure Minister Paul Fletcher, Shadow Energy Minister Mark Butler, Buzzfeed Aus political editor Alice Workman, Centre for Independent Studies' Tom Switzer and security analyst Lydia Khalil.

Episode 8. A Night with Michael Sandel
2018-03-26 · 60 min

The Harvard Professor who's a Youtube superstar. His courses have been viewed by tens of millions worldwide, political philosopher Michael Sandel tackles the toughest issues of our time. Tony Jones presents a special Q&A.

Episode 9. Polling, Policing and Reporting
2018-04-09 · 60 min

Q&A returns after the Easter break with a show in Dandenong, Victoria. Joining Tony Jones are Alan Tudge, Clare O'Neil, Nyadol Nyuon, Andrew Rule and Stuart Bateson as we count down towards Q&A's 10th birthday.

Episode 10. Privacy, Missile Strikes and Celebrity Activism
2018-04-16 · 60 min

Virginia Trioli is joined on the panel by: Mitch Fifield, Minister for Communications; Amanda Rishworth, Shadow Minister for Veterans Affairs and Defence Personnel; Missy Higgins, Australian singer/songwriter; Kenneth Roth, International…

Episode 11. Class Divides and Inequality
2018-04-23 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Shadow Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh, former Nationals Senator Fiona Nash, social researcher Rebecca Huntley, ANU lecturer Jill Sheppard & Institute of Public Affairs Executive Director John Roskam.

Episode 12. Trump, Twitter & North Korea
2018-04-30 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones at the Sydney Writers' Festival: Russian dissident Masha Gessen, American journalist Katy Tur, New York Times critic Wesley Morris, Lowy Institute's Richard McGregor and New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo.

Episode 13. Newstart, New Power and New Jobs
2018-05-07 · 60 min

From Black Lives Matter to Airbnb and even ISIS, there's a new form of people power sweeping the globe. Tony Jones is joined by a panel of changemakers Tim Wilson, Linda Burney, Stanley Johnson, Leyla Acaroglu and Jeremy Heimans.

Episode 14. A Broader Budget
2018-05-14 · 60 min

The fallout from the budget with Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen, Law Enforcement Minister Angus Taylor, Institute of Company Directors Chair Elizabeth Proust, economist Judith Sloan & Director of Australia Institute Ben Oquist.

Episode 15. Weddings, Gaza and Losing Faith
2018-05-21 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones in Melbourne Victorian Liberal Senator Jane Hume, Tasmanian Labor Senator Julie Collins, philosopher/ethicist Peter Singer, The Australian's Foreign Affairs Editor Greg Sheridan and author Randa Abdel-Fattah.

Episode 16. First Responders, Refugees and Flexible Working
2018-05-28 · 60 min

Members of the public get to ask questions to a panel including NSW Liberal Senator Jim Molan, Labor MP Ged Kearney, Anglican priest Rod Bower, Catholic commentator Monica Doumit & Airtasker CEO & co-founder Tim Fung.

Episode 17. Chaos, Ego and Cash
2018-06-04 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones in Melbourne: Social Services Minister Dan Tehan, Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, former Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie, author/broadcaster Rosie Waterland & IR commentator Grace Collier.

Episode 18. Q&A with Bill Shorten
2018-06-11 · 60 min

Labor is leading in the polls but Bill Shorten is lagging as Preferred Prime Minister. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten joins Tony Jones on Q&A to answer your questions from the Shedley Theatre in Elizabeth, Adelaide.

Episode 19. Being Careful, North Korea and Culture Wars
2018-06-18 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones: WA Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds, Labor MP Tim Watts, University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence, US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman & Atlassian's Global Diversity Programs Lead Aubrey Blanche.

Episode 20. Q&A Enabled
2018-06-25 · 60 min

A star of stage and screen, a sports champ, lawyers, advocates, parents and carers join Tony Jones to discuss living with a disability. On the panel Kiruna Stamell, Dylan Alcott, Graeme Innes, Catia Malaquias & Bruce Bonyhady.

Episode 21. Abuse, Foster Care and Taxes
2018-07-02 · 60 min

Joining guest host Hamish Macdonald: Liberal MP Sarah Henderson, Shadow Health Minister Catherine King, Australian Conservatives Leader Cory Bernardi, The Saturday Paper Editor-in-chief Erik Jensen and comedian Corey White.

Episode 22. People's Panel - Celebrating 10 Years of Q&A
2018-07-09 · 60 min

To celebrate 10 Years of Q&A, the first ever Q&A People's Panel will see four everyday Australians get the chance to set the national agenda and give the pollies a wake-up call.

Episode 23. War on Waste
2018-07-23 · 60 min

Q&A's War On Waste: Tony Jones is joined by Craig Reucassel, Oz Harvest CEO Ronni Kahn, Australian Local Govt. Assoc. President David O'Loughlin, Waste Management Assoc. President Gayle Sloan and People's Panelist Jo Taranto.

Episode 24. Super Saturday and Media Diversity
2018-07-30 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones: Communications Minister Mitch Fifield, Shadow Finance Minister Jim Chalmers, Guardian Australia Editor Lenore Taylor, communications consultant Parnell Palme McGuinness and people's panellist Tony Winwood.

Episode 25. Drought Relief and Future Farming
2018-08-06 · 60 min

Q&A in Lismore: Agriculture Minister David Littleproud, Shadow Agriculture Minister Joel Fitzgibbon, National Farmers Federation President Fiona Simson, Former Mayor of Lismore Jenny Dowell & People's Panellist Matt Sorenson.

Episode 26. Power, Spirituality and Free Speech
2018-08-13 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on Q&A: Scholar and poet Dr Cornel West, Tasmanian Liberal Senator Eric Abetz, Labor Member for Cowan Anne Aly, Free Speech Advocate Lindsay Shepherd and People's Panellist Jeremy Bell.

Episode 27. Stranger than Fiction
2018-08-20 · 60 min

Do novelists hold up a mirror to society? Q&A is in Melbourne with fiction writers John Marsden, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Sofie Laguna, Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Trent Dalton to discuss how and why they write about Australia.

Episode 28. Chaos, Crocs and Coal Mining
2018-08-27 · 60 min

Q&A is in Mackay to take Queensland's political pulse, with the LNP's George Christensen, Labor MP Cathy O'Toole, The Greens' Larissa Waters, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and Leader of Katter's Australia Party Bob Katter.

Episode 29. Media Power, Popularity and Special Envoys
2018-09-03 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the show that puts you at the centre of the conversation: Shadow Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese, radio broadcaster Alan Jones, People's Panellist Elmari Whyte and more to come.

Episode 30. High School Students Special
2018-09-10 · 60 min

They are the leaders of the future and they tackle the issues of today. A panel of high school students join Tony Jones in Canberra for democracy in action on the show that puts the audience at the centre of the conversation.

Episode 31. Rape, Racism and No-Platforming
2018-09-17 · 60 min

Tony Jones hosts the show where you ask the questions. On the panel: feminist icon/provocateur Germaine Greer, British journalist Andrew Neil, essayist David Marr, author Sisonke Msimang and People's Panellist Elena Jeffcoat.

Episode 32. Bullying, quotas, and the ABC
2018-10-01 · 60 min

The show that holds politicians and opinion leaders to account returns with Simon Birmingham, Amanda Rishworth, Sarah Hanson-Young, John Butler and people's panellist Sali Miftari joining Tony Jones in Melbourne.

Episode 33. Teaching Special
2018-10-08 · 60 min

What's right and wrong with our schools? What makes a great teacher? Are we over-testing our kids? Tony Jones is joined by Eddie Woo, Pasi Sahlberg, Cindy Berwick, Gabbie Stroud and Jennifer Buckingham for a Teaching Special.

Episode 34. Climate, Welfare and Religious Schools
2018-10-15 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined in Melbourne by world-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs, British commentator James Bartholomew, Victorian Liberal Senator James Paterson, Labor frontbencher Terri Butler and People's Panelist Linda McIver.

Episode 35. Wentworth by-election Special
2018-10-22 · 60 min

An unmissable Q&A: Tony Jones is joined by Independent candidate for Wentworth Kerryn Phelps, NSW Liberal Party President Philip Ruddock, Labor MP Anthony Albanese, political commentator Peter van Onselen, author Anne Summer.

Episode 36. Live from the Pop-up Globe
2018-10-29 · 60 min

400 years after his death, we talk Shakespeare, comedy and drama in the golden age of TV. Q&A from the pop-up Globe with leading lights of the theatre Neil Armfield, Nakkiah Lui, Toby Schmitz, Zindzi Okenyo and Miles Gregory.

Episode 37. Sex Robots, Killer Robots: A Dangerous Q&A
2018-11-05 · 60 min

Q&A at The Festival of Dangerous Ideas with author Angela Nagle, sex educator Nikki Goldstein, pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman, performer and sex clown Betty Grumble and Artificial Intelligence researcher Toby Walsh.

Episode 38. Trust, Leadership, and Stability
2018-11-12 · 60 min

With former Deputy PM John Anderson, Assistant Finance Minister Zed Seselja, Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen, former Human Rights Commission President Gillian Triggs and Communications consultant Parnell Palme McGuinness.

Episode 39. Tourism, Trump, and the Embassy
2018-11-19 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones: New Yorker correspondent Susan Glasser, Special Minister of State Alex Hawke, Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, The Australian's Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan and political correspondent Karen Middleton.

Episode 40. VicVotes, Terrorism, and Gender
2018-11-26 · 60 min

Q&A dissects the Victorian election result and brings our divided Senate around the table with Lib Sen Eric Abetz, Labor Sen Doug Cameron, Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi, plus Tom Switzer and People's Panellist Yasmin Poole.

Episode 41. Protest and Pre-selection
2018-12-03 · 60 min

Joining Hamish Macdonald is singer-songwriter and activist Billy Bragg, Assistant Minister for Home Affairs Linda Reynolds, Tas Labor Senator Lisa Singh, former minister Amanda Vanstone and people's panellist Martin Matthews.

Episode 42. 2018 Finale
2018-12-10 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by President of the Senate Scott Ryan, Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek, Greens leader Richard Di Natale, lawyer/advocate Nyadol Nyuon & editor of Spiked magazine Brendan O'Neill.

Season 12
44 episodes · 2019

After 12 years, this season was Tony Jones's final season as full-time host.

The Boats, the Banks, and the River
Episode 1. The Boats, the Banks, and the River
2019-02-04 · 60 min

Tony Jones returns with a powerful line-up of independent voices: Julia Banks, Andrew Wilkie, Adam Bandt, Kerryn Phelps, Rebekha Sharkie.

Manus, Hakeem, and Franking Credits
Episode 2. Manus, Hakeem, and Franking Credits
2019-02-11 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined in Melbourne by Liberal Member for Corangamite Sarah Henderson; Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus; Crikey founder Stephen Mayne, businesswoman Megan Purcell and People's Panellist Zoya Patel.

Q&A on Drugs
Episode 3. Q&A on Drugs
2019-02-18 · 60 min

On the panel to discuss drug policy: Chief Superintendent Stuart Smith; author Kerryn Redpath; Pioneer of pill testing in Australia Dr David Caldicott; Medical Director Marianne Jauncey; Former AFP Commissioner Mick Palmer.

Jordan Peterson Destroys Q&A
Episode 4. Jordan Peterson Destroys Q&A
2019-02-25 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined in Melbourne by Canadian psychologist/author Dr Jordan Peterson; QLD Labor MP Terri Butler; freelance broadcaster/writer/author Catherine McGregor and writer/commentator Van Badham.

A Church in Crisis
Episode 5. A Church in Crisis
2019-03-04 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by NSW Liberal Senator Jim Molan, NSW Labor Senator Kristina Keneally, Catholic Lay Leader Francis Sullivan, institutional abuse lawyer Dr Viv Waller and rabbi and relationship counsellor Shmuley Boteach.

Q&A: Women in Leadership
Episode 6. Q&A: Women in Leadership
2019-03-11 · 60 min

Annabel Crabb presents a Women in Leadership special with Industry Minister Karen Andrews, Australias first indigenous female MP Linda Burney, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Sabina Shugg and AFLW boss Nicole Livingstone.

Q&A In Townsville
Episode 7. Q&A In Townsville
2019-03-18 · 60 min

A special Q&A in Townsville. Tony Jones joins Minister for Emergency Management Linda Reynolds, Labor MP for Herbert Cathy O'Toole, Professor Stephen Williams, grazier Jane McMillan and rural property valuer Roger Hill.

Roxane Gay on Q&A
Episode 8. Roxane Gay on Q&A
2019-03-25 · 60 min

Tony Jones joins feminist writer Roxane Gay, retiring Government MP Craig Laundy, Shadow Minister for Environment, Water and Citizenship Tony Burke, Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi and Liberal Vice President Teena McQueen.

Cash, Guns, Gangs, and Life
Episode 9. Cash, Guns, Gangs, and Life
2019-04-01 · 60 min

On the eve of the budget Tony Jones joins Liberal senator Arthur Sinodinos, Labor front-bencher Amanda Rishworth, social analyst Rebecca Huntley, IPA Executive Director John Roskam and People's Panellist Lakshmi Logathassan.

Q&A Budget Special
Episode 10. Q&A Budget Special
2019-04-08 · 60 min

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg joins Tony Jones for an election budget special in Melbourne, as the audience ask about the Coalition government's economic plan and the big issues likely to dominate the Federal election campaign.

Election 2019: The Battle For Queensland
Episode 11. Election 2019: The Battle For Queensland
2019-04-15 · 60 min

Guest host Virginia Trioli is in Queensland with LNP Senator James McGrath, Labor MP Terri Butler, Greens Senator Larissa Waters and One Nation candidate Malcolm Roberts to discuss the issues ahead of the May 18 election.

The Election Countdown
Episode 12. The Election Countdown
2019-04-29 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Communications Minister Mitch Fifield, Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen, The Guardian Editor Lenore Taylor, Crikey Managing Editor Bhakthi Puvanenthiran and The Australian's Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan.

Bill Shorten on Q&A
Episode 13. Bill Shorten on Q&A
2019-05-06 · 60 min

Just 12 days before election day, the Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten joins Tony Jones and an audience of undecided voters in Melbourne to face the public's questions.

The Q&A Last Chance Saloon
Episode 14. The Q&A Last Chance Saloon
2019-05-13 · 60 min

With less than a week before Australia decides who will govern for the next three years the public question Liberal campaign spokesman Simon Birmingham, Deputy Labor Leader Tanya Plibersek and Greens Leader Richard Di Natale.

The Wash Up
Episode 15. The Wash Up
2019-05-20 · 60 min

After Australians deliver their election verdict, Labor frontbencher Jim Chalmers, former Liberal MP Christopher Pyne, broadcaster Alan Jones, political reporter Alice Workman and business leader Ming Long join Tony Jones.

First Australians and Quiet Australians
Episode 16. First Australians and Quiet Australians
2019-05-27 · 60 min

The debate turns philosophical with politicians and big thinkers Liberal MP Tim Wilson, ALP MP Mark Dreyfus, Professor of Indigenous Studies Marcia Langton, philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy and people's panelist Rachael Jacobs.

Jimmy Barnes Rocks Q&A
Episode 17. Jimmy Barnes Rocks Q&A
2019-06-03 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones on the panel from Melbourne are: rock icon and author Jimmy Barnes, author Sisonke Msimang, SA Liberal MP Nicolle Flint, regional Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon, and energy policy specialist Matthew Warren.

Q&A at Vivid
Episode 18. Q&A at Vivid
2019-06-10 · 60 min

In a special Q&A from the Vivid Festival: rapper/actor/writer Adam Briggs, broadcaster/writer Faustina Agolley, Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO of CSIRO Dr Larry Marshall and cyberpsychologist Jocelyn Brewer.

Science Special
Episode 19. Science Special
2019-06-17 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones to talk everything science: physicist Prof. Brian Cox, marine ecologist Emma Johnston, atmospheric and climate scientist David Karoly, astrophysicist Kirsten Banks and astrobiologist Martin Van Kranendonk.

The Freedom to Fund Yourself
Episode 20. The Freedom to Fund Yourself
2019-06-24 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones in Melbourne: Education Minister Dan Tehan, Shadow Infrastructure Minister Catherine King, Centre Alliance Senator Rex Patrick, Director of Change.org Sally Rugg and people's panellist Ash Belsar.

Union Bosses and Suburban Dads
Episode 21. Union Bosses and Suburban Dads
2019-07-01 · 60 min

On the eve of parliament's return, Tony Jones joins Liberal Senator James Paterson, Shadow Minister for Innovation Clare O'Neil, writer/broadcaster Jamila Rizvi, IR Commentator Grace Kelly and people's panellist Greg Day.

Nukes in an Uncertain World
Episode 22. Nukes in an Uncertain World
2019-07-08 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones: Senate President Scott Ryan, Opposition Senate Leader Penny Wong, Human Rights Lawyer Diana Sayed, Tom Switzer from the Centre for Independent Studies and Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Studies at ANU.

Deemed Not To Matter
Episode 23. Deemed Not To Matter
2019-07-15 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones in Melbourne: Shadow Minister for Families Linda Burney, Centre Alliance MP Rebekha Sharkie, Former Liberal Senator Jim Molan, comedian Sami Shah and marketing and political strategist Toby Ralph.

Boris, Brexit and The Black Dog
Episode 24. Boris, Brexit and The Black Dog
2019-07-22 · 60 min

On the panel: UK political strategist Alastair Campbell, former WA Premier Geoff Gallop, Property Industry Foundation CEO Kate Mills, Menzies Research Centre Executive Director Nick Cater and political scientist Anne Tiernan.

Wage Theft and Celebrity Chefs
Episode 25. Wage Theft and Celebrity Chefs
2019-07-29 · 60 min

Fran Kelly joins Tasmanian Liberal Senator Eric Abetz, Victorian Labor Senator Kimberley Kitching, social justice advocate Tim Costello, communications consultant Parnell Palme McGuinness and cook/writer/presenter Adam Liaw.

Zali's Political Slalom
Episode 26. Zali's Political Slalom
2019-08-05 · 60 min

Joining Tony Jones are Independent MP Zali Steggall, Liberal MP Jason Falinski, Labor Senator Katy Gallagher, Australian Council of Social Service CEO Cassandra Goldie and The Australian's Economics Editor Adam Creighton.

How Good is Democracy?
Episode 27. How Good is Democracy?
2019-08-12 · 60 min

Tony Jones joins philosopher/author A. C. Grayling, Minister for Population & Cities Alan Tudge, Shadow Minister for the Environment & Water Terri Butler, historian/broadcaster Clare Wright and people's panellist Li Shee Su.

The Indigenous Voice
Episode 28. The Indigenous Voice
2019-08-19 · 60 min

A special look at the case for Constitutional Recognition and an Indigenous voice to parliament. Tony Jones is joined by Noel Pearson, Linda Burney, Julian Leeser, Jacinta Price and Patricia Turner.

High School Special
Episode 29. High School Special
2019-08-26 · 60 min

We open up the panel to the leaders of the future. In a High School Special, students William Gillett, Aurora Matchett, Willoughby Duff and Varsha Yajman join NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Senator Kristina Keneally.

Writers Special
Episode 30. Writers Special
2019-09-02 · 60 min

A Q&A Writers special with American novelist Lionel Shriver, civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson, Australian journalist Ruby Hamad, writer/broadcaster Benjamin Law and Dean of Columbia Journalism School Steve Coll.

Donations, Disability and Disillusionment
Episode 31. Donations, Disability and Disillusionment
2019-09-09 · 60 min

Guest host Fran Kelly joins ACT Liberal Senator Zed Seselja, Labor MP for Cowan Anne Aly, WA Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John, Grattan Institute's Danielle Wood and The Australian's Foreign Affairs Editor Greg Sheridan.

The Political Donations Arms Race
Episode 32. The Political Donations Arms Race
2019-09-16 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by Liberal Senator James Paterson, Shadow Minister for Trade Madeleine King, author/social analyst Eva Cox, former Labor Senator Sam Dastyari and China expert at the United States Studies Centre John Lee.

Kerry O'Brien and Your Right To Know
Episode 33. Kerry O'Brien and Your Right To Know
2019-09-23 · 60 min

Answering your questions are legendary journalist and author Kerry O'Brien, broadcaster/commentator Jan Fran, Communications Minister Paul Fletcher, Shadow Health Minister Chris Bowen and Fairfield City Councillor Dai Le.

The Power of Music
Episode 34. The Power of Music
2019-09-30 · 60 min

Explore the power of music to transform lives with rock legend Tex Perkins, singer/songwriter Katie Noonan, The Choir of Hard Knocks founder Jonathon Welch, soul/blues artist Mojo Juju, and Hip Hop artist L-FRESH The LION.

A Spotlight on Aged Care
Episode 35. A Spotlight on Aged Care
2019-10-07 · 60 min

Guest host Fran Kelly leads a national conversation on aged care. We discuss the issues plaguing the system with Maggie Beer, Richard Colbeck, Julie Collins, Sarah Holland-Batt and Sean Rooney.

Democracy or Disruption?
Episode 36. Democracy or Disruption?
2019-10-14 · 60 min

As Extinction Rebellion and Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters take to the streets, Hamish Macdonald discusses China, climate and the right to protest with Tim Wilson, Tim Watts, Vicky Xu, Jennifer Hewett and Simon Longstaff.

Future Alert
Episode 37. Future Alert
2019-10-21 · 60 min

Guest host Annabel Crabb is joined by John Hewson, Jordan Nguyen, Veena Sahajwalla, Julian Cribb and Chloe Spackman to discuss whether our government is capable of addressing potential disasters threatening human survival.

The Drought
Episode 38. The Drought
2019-10-28 · 60 min

Guest host Hamish Macdonald leads a discussion on drought with Minister for Water Resources and Drought David Littleproud, Shadow Minister for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon, Fiona Simson, Maryanne Slattery and Kate McBride.

Broadside
Episode 39. Broadside
2019-11-04 · 60 min

Guest host Fran Kelly leads an all-women panel with journalist Mona Eltahawy, author Jess Hill, writer/Indigenous rights activist Nayuka Gorrie, businesswoman Hana Assafiri and anti-ageism campaigner/author Ashton Applewhite.

Climate and Catastrophe
Episode 40. Climate and Catastrophe
2019-11-11 · 60 min

Tony Jones is joined by economic strategist Ross Garnaut, Aus Energy Council CEO Sarah McNamara, Liberal MP Jason Falinski, Shadow Minister for Climate Change & Energy Mark Butler plus Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sarah Friar.

Q&A in WA
Episode 41. Q&A in WA
2019-11-18 · 60 min

Q&A is in WA for an Australia Talks special. Joining Tony Jones is Labor MP Anne Aly, WA State Liberal MP Zak Kirkup, human rights lawyer Hannah McGlade, political editor Lanai Scarr and people's panellist Dylan Storer.

International Power
Episode 42. International Power
2019-11-25 · 60 min

A focus on international affairs with Former US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, Labor MP Tanya Plibersek, Israeli Parliamentarian Tamar Zandberg, James Brown from the US Studies Centre and The Australian's Greg Sheridan.

Q&A Pacific
Episode 43. Q&A Pacific
2019-12-02 · 60 min

Q&A celebrates 80 years of Australia broadcasting into the Asia-Pacific region with a special from Suva, Fiji. Joining Tony Jones are Alex Hawke, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Enele Sopoaga, Manu Tupou-Roosen and Virisila Buadromo.

The End of an Era
Episode 44. The End of an Era
2019-12-09 · 60 min

The 2019 finale of Q&A. Joining Tony Jones on the panel Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese, Indigenous leader Pat Turner, author Sisonke Msimang and ANU Vice-Chancellor Brian Schmidt.

Season 13
Season 13
44 episodes · 2020

Hamish Macdonald replaced Tony Jones as the new regular host.

Q+A Bushfires Special
Episode 1. Q+A Bushfires Special
2020-02-03 · 60 min

The summer bushfires have shocked Australia and the world. Q+A returns with new host Hamish Macdonald for an important conversation in Queanbeyan about how these communities are recovering and what they want from our leaders. Joining him…

Climate Solutions
Episode 2. Climate Solutions
2020-02-10 · 60 min

Hamish Macdonald hosts a conversation on climate solutions. Joining him live in Melbourne to discuss how businesses and individuals are tackling the climate challenge are: Osher Günsberg, TV and radio host; Jennifer Westacott, Business…

Trust
Episode 3. Trust
2020-02-17 · 60 min

Joining Hamish Macdonald in Melbourne to discuss the topic of trust are: Katie Allen, Liberal MP for Higgins; Clare O'Neil, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Technology and the Future of Work; Jacqui Lambie, Independent Senator; Jack…

Q+A on China - A Healthy Relationship?
Episode 4. Q+A on China - A Healthy Relationship?
2020-02-24 · 60 min

The Coronavirus has brought Australia's relationship with China into sharp focus. Hamish Macdonald examines the implications for our economy, region and community with: Wang Xining, Minister and Deputy Head of Mission, Chinese Embassy;…

The Australian Identity: Who Are We?
Episode 5. The Australian Identity: Who Are We?
2020-03-02 · 60 min

Joining Hamish Macdonald in Melbourne to discuss what it means to be an Australian in the 21st century are: Nova Peris, Olympian and former politician; Tarang Chawla, writer and anti-violence campaigner; Marlee Silva, founder of the…

Education - Are We Failing?
Episode 6. Education - Are We Failing?
2020-03-09 · 60 min

Hamish Macdonald presents an hour of topical debate from Sydney where he discusses the current issues facing the Australian education system. Joining him to discuss the topic are: Tanya Plibersek, Shadow Minister for Education; Adrian…

The Corona Challenge: Are We Prepared?
Episode 7. The Corona Challenge: Are We Prepared?
2020-03-16 · 60 min

Hamish Macdonald hosts a special debate from Melbourne focussed on the coronavirus. Joining him on the panel to discuss this are: Richard Colbeck, Minister for Aged Care, Youth and Sport; Katy Gallagher, Shadow Minister for Finance; Bill…

Ask The Doctors
Episode 8. Ask The Doctors
2020-03-23 · 60 min

As the coronavirus continues to dominate headlines, Hamish Macdonald presents an hour of topical debate from Sydney with a panel of medical professionals. Answering questions are: Dr Norman Swan, presenter, RN and Coronacast; Professor…

Coronavirus: The Cost
Episode 9. Coronavirus: The Cost
2020-03-30 · 60 min

Joining Hamish Macdonald in Sydney to discuss the repercussions of the coronavirus on Australia are: Nicki Hutley, economist at Deloitte Access Economics; Matt Comyn, CEO and Managing Director of Commonwealth Bank; Jennifer Westacott, CEO…

Coronavirus: Stories from the Frontline
Episode 10. Coronavirus: Stories from the Frontline
2020-04-06 · 60 min

Joining Hamish Macdonald in Sydney to discuss the latest developments surrounding the coronavirus and share their experiences dealing with the pandemic are: Dr Stephen Parnis, Emergency Doctor and Former AMA Vice President; Danielle…

Surviving Lockdown
Episode 11. Surviving Lockdown
2020-04-13 · 60 min

Joining Hamish Macdonald to discuss coping mechanisms for enduring the social isolation required during the coronavirus pandemic are: Matt Preston, food critic and author; Craig Foster, Refugee advocate and former Socceroos captain; Julie…

COVID-19: Where to Next?
Episode 12. COVID-19: Where to Next?
2020-04-20 · 60 min

Joining Hamish Macdonald to discuss what the future holds for Australians in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic are: Nev Power, Executive Chairman of the National COVID-19 Coordination Commission; Sally McManus, Australian Council…

Education in the Age of COVID-19
Episode 13. Education in the Age of COVID-19
2020-04-27 · 60 min

Joining Hamish Macdonald to discuss the impact on the world of education during the current COVID-19 pandemic are: Nick Coatsworth, Deputy Chief Medical Officer; Lisa Jackson Pulver, Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Sydney; Mark…

The Post-COVID World Order
Episode 14. The Post-COVID World Order
2020-05-04 · 60 min

Hamish Mcdonald chairs a debate on how the world will carry on after the coronavirus pandemic passes. Joining him to discuss this topic are: Dave Sharma, Liberal Member for Wentworth and Former Diplomat; Penny Wong, Shadow Foreign…

Q+A: The Premiers
Episode 15. Q+A: The Premiers
2020-05-11 · 60 min

Joining Hamish Macdonald in the studio to discuss the easing of Australia's quarantine conditions are: Dan Andrews, Premier of Victoria, Gladys Berejiklian, Premier of New South Wales, and Annastacia Palaszczuk, Premier of Queensland.…

Young and Free?
Episode 16. Young and Free?
2020-05-18 · 60 min

Hamish Macdonald chairs a debate on the post-pandemic impact on young Australians. Will it be harder to find work, buy a home, get a degree? How will their way of life change? The young have paid a high economic price for this crisis, so…

Australia Reimagined
Episode 17. Australia Reimagined
2020-05-25 · 60 min

Hamish Macdonald chairs a discussion about how Australia's future could be reimagined in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Joining him on the panel to share their thoughts and ideas are: Lucy Turnbull, Former Lord Mayor of Sydney;…

Our Energy Future
Episode 18. Our Energy Future
2020-06-01 · 60 min

The Federal Government has unveiled its roadmap for Australia's energy future, shifting focus from coal to gas. Will the new energy plan benefit all Australians now and into the future? Joining Hamish Macdonald to discuss this and more…

Hard Truths
Episode 19. Hard Truths
2020-06-08 · 60 min

In the wake of the international Black Lives Matter demonstrations and Australia's economy entering recession for the first time in 29 years, Hamish Macdonal chairs a discussion about racism and the government's response to the ongoing…

The Future of Sport
Episode 20. The Future of Sport
2020-06-15 · 60 min

Joining Hamish Macdonald to discuss how the world of sport will deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic are: Andrew Abdo, Interim NRL CEO; Brendon Gale, Richmond Football Club CEO; Tracey Holmes, Sports broadcaster and journalist; Bruce…

Australia: Secret State?
Episode 21. Australia: Secret State?
2020-06-22 · 60 min

Secrets, spies and hidden trials. How do we balance national security with your right to know? Joining Hamish Macdonald to discuss this and more are: Dennis Richardson, Former Director-General of ASIO; Nick Xenophon, Lawyer and former…

Saving the Arts and 'Brain Farts'
Episode 22. Saving the Arts and 'Brain Farts'
2020-06-29 · 60 min

Claims of sexual harassment have rocked the High Court, youth unemployment is skyrocketing and the cancel culture debate looks like going nowhere. All this against a backdrop of a serious COVID spike in Victoria. Joining guest host…

Borders, Booze and the Big Spend on Defence
Episode 23. Borders, Booze and the Big Spend on Defence
2020-07-06 · 60 min

In politics, the voters of Eden-Monaro are heading to the polls on Saturday in a by-election touted as a test of voter confidence in Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition leader Anthony Albanese in these uncertain economic times.…

Julia Gillard on Q+A
Episode 24. Julia Gillard on Q+A
2020-07-13 · 60 min

Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard joins Hamish Macdonald for a special Q+A live from Sydney. The only woman to hold the top job in Australia, she discusses her time as Prime Minister and how she is tackling the challenge of being an…

Disrupted Recovery
Episode 25. Disrupted Recovery
2020-07-20 · 60 min

As life opens up for much of Australia, the two most populated states are battling to contain a growing number of COVID cases. Victoria is now cut off from all states, with several areas in complete lockdown, AFL teams are fleeing north…

Fight Of Our Lives
Episode 26. Fight Of Our Lives
2020-07-27 · 60 min

The pandemic has already taken a terrible economic toll and the recovery will take longer than first predicted. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says we are in the “fight of our lives”, with Australia recording the largest budget deficit in…

The Frontline
Episode 27. The Frontline
2020-08-03 · 60 min

Hamish Macdonald is joined by a panel of frontline workers and medical experts leading the fight against COVID. On the panel are: Kerryn Phelps, Former AMA President and City of Sydney councillor; Lucy Morgan, Respiratory physician,…

State of Disaster
Episode 28. State of Disaster
2020-08-10 · 60 min

With stage 3 restrictions now in effect across the rest of Victoria, what is the impact for one of Australia's key states? Joining Hamish Macdonald to discuss this and more are: Tim Wilson, Victorian Liberal MP; Kimberley Kitching,…

Media and Misinformation
Episode 29. Media and Misinformation
2020-08-17 · 60 min

The pandemic has fast turned Australia into two countries - the COVID states, and the COVID-free states, with border closures now a brutal necessity. So, how does Australia stay united? Also, it is vital we can trust our sources of news…

Generation COVID
Episode 30. Generation COVID
2020-08-24 · 60 min

Increasing numbers of young Australians are fearful for their future due to facing unemployment, underemployment, drained savings and superannuation accounts, bigger debts, a disrupted school life and serious mental health challenges.…

Panel of Wisdom
Episode 31. Panel of Wisdom
2020-08-31 · 60 min

This week Hamish Macdonald draws on the collective wisdom of some highly respected Australians. How do their life experiences shape what they take away from this COVID-19 crisis? Where do they think our focus should be right now? How do…

Border Wars
Episode 32. Border Wars
2020-09-07 · 60 min

The political battle over state borders is heating up. The Premiers are standing firm but the Prime Minister wants interstate travel to resume by Christmas. Hard border closures are helping contain COVID cases but have caused massive…

The Age of Loneliness
Episode 33. The Age of Loneliness
2020-09-14 · 60 min

Loneliness is predicted to be the next public health epidemic of the 21st century. What sort of politics could make us feel more connected? Does technology bring us together or keep us apart? Joining Hamish Macdonald to discuss these…

US Election 2020: Four More Years?
Episode 34. US Election 2020: Four More Years?
2020-09-21 · 60 min

President Trump's handling of COVID-19 has been widely condemned and racial tensions have sparked protests in many American cities. Six weeks out from the election and polls suggest Democratic nominee Joe Biden is leading the race, but…

Road to Recovery
Episode 35. Road to Recovery
2020-09-28 · 60 min

After the devastating impact of bushfires and COVID-19, what should our economic recovery plan look like? Where should our priorities lie when it comes to jobs and growth post-pandemic? Joining Hamish Macdonald to discuss this and more…

Budget Special
Episode 36. Budget Special
2020-10-05 · 60 min

Next week’s budget will be unlike any other. Australia's gross debt has now soared past a record-breaking $800 billion, and somehow the Government must support the economy and plan a recovery amidst a pandemic still throwing up unknowns.…

Anthony Albanese on Q+A
Episode 37. Anthony Albanese on Q+A
2020-10-12 · 60 min

It’s a tricky time to be in Opposition, while we’re consumed by the pandemic and those leading us through it. Now, Labor’s leader has pledged to change tack and start providing an alternative. This week is a one-on-one special with the…

Social Disconnect
Episode 38. Social Disconnect
2020-10-19 · 60 min

Tech designers have control over how billions of us think and act, and some of them have started sounding the alarm on their own creations. Reports show higher social media use is now linked to a decline in mental health. Political…

An Ethical Australia? Accountability, Ethics and Leadership
Episode 39. An Ethical Australia? Accountability, Ethics and Leadership
2020-10-26 · 60 min

In these challenging times, who holds the powerful to account? Are the standards of our political leaders slipping as we grapple with the COVID crisis? Also, how do we achieve a more ethical Australia? Could we embed ethics into all…

US Election: Trump vs Biden
Episode 40. US Election: Trump vs Biden
2020-11-02 · 60 min

America is bitterly divided, the economy is in trouble and COVID-19 is still ravaging the population. The polls and history are against Trump, voters tend to punish sitting presidents during recessions but there's never been a…

Politicians, Presidents and the Palace
Episode 41. Politicians, Presidents and the Palace
2020-11-09 · 60 min

This week, the topics include the US election, implications of the Queensland election, the 45th anniversary of Gough Whitlam’s dismissal, the Integrity Commission proposal, and national secrets. Joining Hamish Macdonald to discuss these…

Sex, Lies and a Better Politics
Episode 42. Sex, Lies and a Better Politics
2020-11-16 · 60 min

It's been a big week - allegations of sexual misconduct and a toxic culture for women in Canberra, Donald Trump clinging to power in a bizarre post-election campaign, Labor spats over climate policy, and a potential vaccine breakthrough.…

Live From Penrith
Episode 43. Live From Penrith
2020-11-23 · 60 min

COVID has hit Australia’s poorest the hardest, and young people are struggling to find work in the coronavirus recession. Yet Labor struggles to hold onto its grassroots heartland in these areas, and the NSW Liberal party faces questions…

Q+A 2020 Finale: The Year That Changed Us
Episode 44. Q+A 2020 Finale: The Year That Changed Us
2020-11-30 · 60 min

2020 brought us drought, bushfires and the chaos of a pandemic. COVID and the accompanying recession has changed the world, and all of us - in some ways for the worse, and in some for the better. All against a backdrop of the most…

Season 14
24 episodes · 2021
Calling It Out
Episode 1. Calling It Out
2021-02-04 · 60 min

Kicking off the new series in its new timeslot, Hamish Macdonald chairs a debate that asks how the new Biden presidency will affect Australia, if the debate surrounding Australia Day has affected race relations, and whether the vaccine…

Q+A on Vaccines: What do you want to know?
Episode 2. Q+A on Vaccines: What do you want to know?
2021-02-11 · 60 min

It could be the most powerful weapon in the fight against COVID-19: A vaccine. So when will it be available? Who will get priority and how will it change the way Australians live, work and travel? Is the national strategy the right one?…

Bargaining with Big Tech
Episode 3. Bargaining with Big Tech
2021-02-18 · 60 min

The tech giants have threatened to pull their services from Australia if the Government goes ahead with new laws forcing them to pay media outlets for their news content. Should governments reign in the might of the tech sector? Will the…

Spotlight on Aged Care
Episode 4. Spotlight on Aged Care
2021-02-25 · 60 min

On the eve of the final report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care, Q+A asks is Australia failing its older citizens? The pandemic has exposed nightmare stories of neglect for those in aged care. What needs to change and are there…

All About Women
Episode 5. All About Women
2021-03-04 · 60 min

With the Brittany Higgins scandal and growing number of sexual assault claims engulfing the Federal parliament, Q+A brings together a diverse panel of women to discuss gender, justice, and equality. How far has feminism brought us and…

On The Rebound
Episode 6. On The Rebound
2021-03-11 · 60 min

Australia's economic rebound: who is leaping ahead and who is falling behind? Plus Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's interview, Australia's trade relationship with China, and is it time to rethink COVID border restrictions? Joining Hamish…

Consent
Episode 7. Consent
2021-03-18 · 60 min

This week, students, parents, experts and educators take a frank look at the vexed issue of consent, how men can help change the power imbalance and what needs to be done to combat the cultures of violence and silence that threaten the…

Fixing The Future
Episode 8. Fixing The Future
2021-03-25 · 60 min

COVID is giving us a chance to reset, but already we’re seeing a toxic form of vaccine nationalism take hold, in which unequal access to vaccines is leaving some countries out in the cold. So how do we design a more equal world? Joining…

Vaccines, The Church, and the State of Politics
Episode 9. Vaccines, The Church, and the State of Politics
2021-04-08 · 60 min

The Federal Government’s so-called “women’s ministry” meets for the first time this week in an attempt to drive action when it comes to the treatment of women. Will it be enough to turn the Prime Minister’s fortune around? The Government…

It's Complicated: Vaccines, China, and Saying Sorry
Episode 10. It's Complicated: Vaccines, China, and Saying Sorry
2021-04-15 · 60 min

After new medical advice derailed the COVID vaccine rollout, how quickly can the Australian government get the program back on track? As Australia's relationship with China continues to sour over the fallout of its push for an…

Climate, Politics, and 'Fossil Fools'
Episode 11. Climate, Politics, and 'Fossil Fools'
2021-04-22 · 60 min

As more countries set ambitious targets to reduce emissions, Australia stands at a crossroads. After more than a decade of bickering on both sides of politics, is the country ready to put an end to its climate wars? The Prime Minister has…

Diversity, Double Standards and Aussies Trapped Abroad
Episode 12. Diversity, Double Standards and Aussies Trapped Abroad
2021-04-29 · 60 min

As mass vaccination centres operate at a fraction of capacity, what does the government need to do to restore faith in its vaccination rollout? Also, the war of words over Australia’s hotel quarantine system is raging on, with some…

Power and Control
Episode 13. Power and Control
2021-05-06 · 60 min

This week's discussion takes a look at housing affordability, childcare and the government’s big spend. Joining Hamish Macdonald on the panel are: Alan Kohler, Finance journalist and Editor-in-Chief at The Eureka Report; Jess Hill,…

Budget 2021 Special
Episode 14. Budget 2021 Special
2021-05-13 · 60 min

With the economy showing strong signs of recovery, the government is focusing on jobs and talking up its spending on aged care, infrastructure and childcare. It’s being touted as a “women’s budget”, but will the measures, including more…

Barnaby Meets Lukenomics
Episode 15. Barnaby Meets Lukenomics
2021-05-20 · 60 min

With Australia’s borders likely to remain closed until mid-2022, senior Government ministers are standing by the decision to keep the doors shut, despite internal party backlash. What will extended border closures mean for the country’s…

Trauma and Truth-Telling
Episode 16. Trauma and Truth-Telling
2021-05-27 · 60 min

With the conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas arriving at a ceasefire, how long will the peace last? Also, as Australia marks Reconciliation Week, what action needs to be taken to amplify the voices of and achieve better…

Vaccine, Quarantine and Life Outside the Big Cities
Episode 17. Vaccine, Quarantine and Life Outside the Big Cities
2021-06-03 · 60 min

Q+A heads to Wollongong with guest host Stan Grant, looking at Victoria's COVID crisis, the challenges facing universities, plus what growing urban sprawl means for infrastructure, jobs and property prices for regional areas. On the panel…

Health and Humanity
Episode 18. Health and Humanity
2021-06-10 · 60 min

As frustrated Victorians endure a fourth lockdown, businesses across the country are hurting; is it time we learnt to live with COVID long term? What risk are we prepared to live with? Plus a look at the trade war tensions between…

Boats, Boys Clubs and Businesses on the Brink
Episode 19. Boats, Boys Clubs and Businesses on the Brink
2021-06-17 · 60 min

As Melbourne slowly emerges from its fourth heartbreaking lockdown, what is the nation's view on job security and business confidence in the COVID recovery, plus the impact of Victoria’s recent devastating floods. Other topics include the…

Sydney Surge and Life on the Spectrum
Episode 20. Sydney Surge and Life on the Spectrum
2021-06-24 · 60 min

This week, Hamish Macdonald returns to the Q+A host chair and along with the panel takes a look at Sydney’s growing COVID cluster, disability, autism and the other big stories of the week.On the panel are: Jayden Evans, Love on the…

Vaccines: Supply and Demand
Episode 21. Vaccines: Supply and Demand
2021-07-01 · 60 min

When it comes to vaccinations, it seems Australia has fallen to the very last of all OECD countries, with only 4.75% of Australians vaccinated, as compared 45.76% in the United States. And with Brisbane on track to be named the official…

The Ethics of Accountability
Episode 22. The Ethics of Accountability
2021-07-08 · 60 min

Guest host David Speers leads discussions on the four-stage plan to lead Australia out of the COVID pandemic, fresh accusations of sexism and unwanted sexual advances in federal politics, plus the global issue of vaccine equity. Joining…

Dealing with Delta
Episode 23. Dealing with Delta
2021-07-15 · 60 min

Joining guest host Virginia Trioli on the panel are: Marylouise McLaws, epidemiologist; Steve Price, radio broadcaster; Mukesh Haikerwal, GP and former President of the AMA; Meshel Laurie, podcaster and author; and Alison Pennington,…

The Olympics and Opening Up
Episode 24. The Olympics and Opening Up
2021-07-22 · 60 min

Joining guest host Virginia Trioli on the panel are: Libby Trickett, Olympic Gold Medallist; Russel Howcroft, broadcaster; David Gillespie, Regional Health Minister; Bill Shorten, Shadow Minister for the NDIS and Government Services; and…

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