Said it a few months ago and my belief has strengthened since then - Q&A has improved massively this year. Tonight’s episode is the perfect example of that - Shaun, Terri, Christopher & Brooke have all delivered such great insights/perspectives
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Julia Gillard on Q+A
13 July at 9:35pm
Next Monday night a Q+A special, with former Prime Minister Julia Gillard joining host Hamish Macdonald live from Sydney.
The only woman to hold the top job in Australia, Julia Gillard now says there are things she would have done very differently.
So what are they? What did she learn? And how is she tackling the vexed challenge of being an ex-PM?
With her experience on the world stage in politics, economics and global not-for-profits, Julia Gillard has written a new book, Women in Leadership with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, canvassing the impact of gender on women’s access to positions of leadership. Why do men still dominate the corridors of power around the world? Do women make better leaders?
With a long held passion for education and equality, Julia Gillard now works for the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at Kings College and the Global Partnership for Education. She is Chair of Beyond Blue, one of Australia’s leading mental health bodies, and has just joined Wellcome Trust, a medical research company involved in the search for a COVID-19 vaccine.
Her iconic Misogyny speech from 2012 went viral and has recently turned up on TikTok.
The good, the bad and the prickly with Julia Gillard on Q+A, July 13, 9.35pm. Unmissable TV!
Q+A is live on Monday, July 13 at 9.35pm AEST.
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The funds are available until the end of 2021.
Disrupted Recovery
Monday 20 July at 9:35pm
Q+A is live from Sydney
The path to our new normal is changing rapidly. As life opens up for much of the country, our 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 and businesses facing loss upon loss.
The Government says more financial help is on the way, but how long can we afford this stop-start scenario?
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Sarah Henderson, Liberal Senator for Victoria; Sarah Henderson was sworn in as a Liberal Senator for Victoria in September 2019. She is a member of a number of committees and chairs the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights.
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Adam Bandt, Leader of the Australian Greens; In February 2020, Adam was elected unopposed as Leader of the Greens following Richard Di Natale’s retirement.
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Margy Osmond, CEO of the Tourism and Transport Forum; Margy Osmond has extensive experience in policy development and advocacy, politics, membership organisations, management, media and public relations
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Jodie McVernon, Epidemiologist, Doherty Institute; Professor Jodie McVernon is a physician with subspecialty qualifications in public health and vaccinology.
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L-FRESH the LION, Hip Hop artist from south-west Sydney; Born and raised in South West Sydney, L-FRESH The LION is one of Australia’s most important Hip Hop artists.
Monday 27 July at 9:35pm
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 modern history.
The Government’s JobKeeper payment is to be extended until March next year, but with reduced payments for staff, and businesses having to prove their turnover is down more than 30%.
Melbourne is back in lockdown, and Sydney bracing for more restrictions, so will the reduced subsidies be enough to keep businesses afloat? The JobSeeker supplement will remain in place until the end of the year, but with payments reduced by $300 a fortnight.
So who will benefit, who will lose out, and will it be enough to keep our hardest hit sectors going?
How long can the assistance go on for? And what is the most sustainable way out of this recession?
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Bill Bowtell, Adjunct Professor, UNSW and Strategic Health Policy Adviser; Bill Bowtell is a strategic policy adviser with particular interest in national and international health policy structures and reform.
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Gigi Foster, Economist, UNSW; Gigi Foster is a Professor with the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales.
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George Megalogenis, Author and journalist; George Megalogenis is an author and journalist with more than three decades’ experience in the media, including 11 years in the federal parliamentary press gallery.
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Cassandra Goldie, CEO of Australian Council of Social Service; Dr Cassandra Goldie has been CEO of ACOSS since 2010 and has extensive public policy experience in economic and social issues.
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Karen Soo, Executive Officer at the Haymarket Chamber of Commerce; Karen Soo is the Executive Officer at the Haymarket Chamber of Commerce, representing Chinatown, the Haymarket precinct and the wider Sydney Asian community in tourism, government and business.
Good to see no-one who is actually impacted by these policies on the panel 
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Bill Bowtell humiliated himself last time he was on, interrupting and grandstanding over all the other panelists and was completely wrong about everything. Why is he back?
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Does anyone know which auditorium Q&A was broadcasting from when they visited Shanghai?
Shanghai Media Group studios.
The Front Line
Monday 3 August at 9:35pm
Next Monday night on Q+A, Hamish Macdonald is joined by a panel of frontline workers and medical experts leading the fight against COVID in this country.
They’re in our emergency departments and aged care homes, guiding our community response and seeing firsthand how quickly this virus can slip beyond our control.
In Melbourne, health care workers are exhausted and increasingly infected themselves. In NSW, hospital staff are bracing for a second wave and dealing with recovered patients with significant post-viral syndromes.
It’s clear that we will be living with COVID for some time, and these are the people we will rely on.
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Kerryn Phelps, Former AMA President and City of Sydney councillor; Kerryn Phelps is one of Australia’s best known doctors, health communicators and public health and civil rights advocates.
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Lucy Morgan, Respiratory physician, Nepean Hospital; Dr Lucy Morgan is a respiratory physician currently working at Nepean Hospital, NSW where she leads a team of young doctors testing for COVID, and looking after COVID patients.
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Vyom Sharma, General Practitioner; Dr Vyom Sharma is a medical practitioner and health commentator.
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Abbey Fistrovic, Clinical Nurse Specialist; Abbey Fistrovic is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Emergency Department.
Fifth panellist TBC
Plus With a live cross to:
- Andrew Laming is an LNP federal MP from Brisbane’s bayside, a former surgeon and World Bank consultant in Washington DC.
- Ged Kearney is the Federal Member for Cooper, and started her working life as a nurse before becoming Federal Secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation.
State of Disaster
Monday 10 August at 9:35 pm
This Monday night Q+A turns to the ongoing Covid crisis in Victoria, where a state of disaster has been declared.
Melbourne is in stage four lockdown, with an evening curfew and an additional 250,00 employees forced to stay home. Non-essential workplaces, retail and schools are closed, except for “permitted” workers, and Melburnians are restricted to a five-kilometre radius of their home, with few exceptions. It’s designed as a “shock and awe” campaign to drive down community spread of the virus.
And with stage 3 restrictions now in effect across the rest of Victoria, what is the impact for one of our country’s key states? Will businesses survive and what powers does the new state of disaster give police and state government? How will the new border closures between Victoria and other states impact the rest of the country? And how do we deal with people’s mental and emotional wellbeing in the face of such uncertainty?
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Tim Wilson, Victorian Liberal MP; Tim Wilson is the Federal Liberal Member for the Melbourne seat of Goldstein. He was first elected in 2016.
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Kimberley Kitching, Victorian Labor Senator; Before entering the Senate, Kimberley Kitching was a senior adviser to the Treasurer of Victoria and the Victorian Minister for Industry, Trade, Major Projects and Information Technology.
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Dinesh Palipana, Emergency doctor and disability advocate; Dinesh Palipana was the first quadriplegic medical intern in Queensland, and the second person to graduate medical school with quadriplegia in Australia.
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Michele O’Neil, ACTU, President; Michele O’Neil is the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. She began her working life as a waitress, went on to work in the community sector with homeless young people.
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Paul Waterson, CEO, Australian Venue Co; Paul Waterson is the CEO of Australian Venue Co. Paul has driven the group’s rapid growth from a small Victorian pub group to one of the country’s largest and most dynamic hospitality groups.
With a live cross to:
Killian Ashe , Psychiatrist, Royal Melbourne Hospital; Dr Killian Ashe is a dynamic young psychiatrist working in Melbourne.
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Monday 17 August at 9:35 pm
The pandemic has fast turned this nation 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 and information during a pandemic. Conspiracy theories, fake news and the influence of big tech are all under the microscope, as a new code comes into force requiring the digital giants to pay old media for news content. Will that solve the problems?
And we look at media diversity, as a scathing new report on the lack of diversity on Australian television screens is due to be released.
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Barnaby Joyce, Nationals Member for New England
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Michelle Rowland, Shadow Communications Minister; Prior to entering Parliament, Michelle Rowland was a senior lawyer specialising in competition and regulation in the telecommunications, media and technology sectors.
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Antoinette Lattouf, Journalist and diversity advocate; Antoinette Lattouf is a multi-award winning journalist and a diversity advocate.
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Niki Savva, Columnist and author; Journalist Niki Savva has written about every Australian Prime Minister from Gough Whitlam to Scott Morrison.
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Ziggy Ramo, Musician; Since his first release in 2016, Ziggy Ramo’s razor-sharp lyricism and effortlessly cool musical talent have positioned him as an essential voice in Australia’s national conversation.
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Sinead Boucher, Chief executive and owner of Stuff Ltd; Sinead Boucher was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Stuff in August 2017 and in 2020 completed a management buyout of the company from previous owner Nine Entertainment Ltd.
Generation COVID
Monday 24 August at 9:35 pm
Even before COVID-19, young Australians faced an uncertain future.
Now they’re facing unemployment, underemployment, drained savings and superannuation accounts, bigger debts, a disrupted school life and serious mental health challenges.
This pandemic has exacerbated many of the issues young people were facing and it’s no wonder increased numbers of young people are fearful and anxious about the future.
So, what’s the way forward? This week, we bring together a panel of young Australians and some of our younger elected representatives to discuss how they overcome the economic and social challenges they’re facing.
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Scott Yung, Education entrepreneur; Scott Yung is a first generation Australian and education entrepreneur who ran as the Liberal candidate for Kogorah at the 2019 NSW State Election.
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Ahmed Hassan, Co-founder and Executive Director of Youth Activating Youth; Ahmed Hassan is a passionate and respected advocate for Melbourne’s multicultural community, working with government, industry and community to highlight the issues faced by disadvantaged youth.
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Kate McBride, Farmer, Western NSW; Kate McBride is a fifth-generation grazier from Western NSW, who has a Bachelor of Commerce with majors in management with agriculture and environmental electives.
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Olivia Anderson, Year 12 Student, Pymble Ladies’ College; Olivia Anderson is a year 12 student at Pymble Ladies’ College, who has grown up on the Central Coast of NSW.
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With a live cross to:
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Andrew Bragg, Liberal Senator for NSW; Andrew Bragg was elected to the Senate in the 2019 federal election. In his recently published book Bad Egg: How to Fix Super , he calls for significant changes to our superannuation system.
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Anika Wells, Labor MP for Lilley; Anika Wells became the youngest woman in the House of Representatives when she took over the seat of Lilley from Wayne Swan following his retirement at the 2019 Federal Election.
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Jordon Steele-John, Greens Senator for WA; Jordon Steele-John is Australia’s youngest senator who journeys with a disability.
Hamish stopped using his social media last week,after attacks from trolls.
Panel of Wisdom
Monday 31 August at 9:35pm
This week we draw 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 they imagine our future? How should we tackle the big issues facing the country at this time?
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Kerry O’Brien, Journalist and Author; Kerry O’Brien is a prominent Australian journalist and author whose long career includes 28 years as a national current affairs television presenter and interviewer.
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Jillian Broadbent, Chancellor, University of Wollongong and leading businesswoman; Jillian Broadbent has had a career across the Australian business, public and arts sectors.
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Colin Barnett, Former Premier of WA and Adjunct Professor at UWA; Colin Barnett served as the Premier of WA from 2008 to 2017.
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Ray Minniecon, Pastor; Ray Minniecon is a community Pastor with St. John’s Anglican Church, Glebe where he is developing a unique and ambitious Scarred Tree ministry.
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Ronni Kahn, CEO and Founder, OzHarvest; Ronni Kahn founded OzHarvest in 2004, determined to rescue good food and deliver it to people in need.
Border Wars
Monday 7 September 2020 at 9:35pm
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 problems for business, health care workers and families in need of medical attention.
And thousands of Australians remain stranded overseas faced with a cap on international arrivals, soaring ticket prices and quarantine costs.
So, who’s got the power when it counts? Are we getting the balance right when it comes to restricting free travel in the name of public health?
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Michael McCormack, Deputy Prime Minister; Michael McCormack is the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, and Leader of the National Party.
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Kristina Keneally, Shadow Home Affairs Minister; Kristina Keneally is a Labor Senator for New South Wales and a former NSW Premier.
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Dr Omar Khorshid, Australian Medical Association President; Dr Omar Khorshid took over from Dr Tony Bartone as the President of the Australian Medical Association in August 2020.
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Kim Rubenstein, Legal scholar and citizenship expert; Kim Rubenstein is a Professor in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law and Co Director of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation at the University of Canberra.
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Tania de Jong, Entrepreneur and soprano; Tania de Jong AM is one of Australia’s most successful female entrepreneurs and innovators having developed five businesses and three charities over three decades.
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