It will air at 8.30pm after Back Roads or Foreign Correspondent.
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Q+A 2020 Finale: The Year That Changed Us
Monday 30 November at 9:35pm
It’s the final Q+A of the year. And what a year it’s been!
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 extraordinary US Presidential election in living memory, and an alarming deterioration in our relations with China.
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Jimmy Barnes, Rock legend and author; Despite the COVID-led devastation to the music industry this year, Jimmy Barnes has kept his fans happy with a daily dose of his Lockdown Songs, performed from his home with various family members.
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Kristy McBain, Labor Member for Eden-Monaro; Kristy McBain was elected to Federal Parliament in July 2020 at the Eden-Monaro by election, and is the former Mayor of Bega.
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Michael Yabsley, Former NSW Liberal MP; Michael Yabsley is a former NSW Liberal MP, representing the seats of Bligh from 1984 to 1988 and Vaucluse from 1988 to 1994.
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Rita Therese, Sex worker, artist and writer; Rita Therese is a 25-year-old sex worker, artist and writer based in Melbourne, Australia. She entered the sex industry at age 18, and has worked as a stripper, in porn and as an escort.
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Lavina Lee, International relations expert; Dr Lavina Lee is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Sydney. She was appointed to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute Council by the Australian Minister of Defence in June 2020, and prior to that was a Director of the Institute for Regional Security.
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What a ridiculous panel. Q&A has jumped the shark. It’s dead. Let’s face it. Thursday will kill it off
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Q&A - SERIES RETURN
Thursday 4 February at 8:30pm
Returning to a new night and a new primetime slot, Q+A is the show that puts you at the centre of the conversation. Join host Hamish Macdonald and a panel of punters, pollies and pundits to talk through the issues of the past seven day, setting the agenda for the week ahead.
In 2021, Q+A is once again set for another year of lively debate and surprising, thought provoking discussions that challenge our thinking on big and complex issues.
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Thursday 4 February at 8:30pm
Q+A returns for 2021 in a brand new time slot – Thursdays at 8.30pm!
This Thursday Feb 4 we kick off with a panel of eminent Australians joining host Hamish Macdonald live from Sydney. They’ll debate some of the current issues likely to shape the year ahead.
What now for Australia with a new Biden presidency ? Will we feel the reverberations of lingering Trumpism here? How has the Australia Day debate impacted race relations and will the vaccine brawls erupting in Europe disrupt the Australian roll-out? Plus a chance to hear directly from our new Australian of the Year who’s pledged to dismantle the system of grooming used by sexual predators.
The show will close with a live performance from didgeridoo player and musical director William Barton.
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Alexander Downer was Australia’s longest-serving Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the Australian High Commissioner to the UK from 2014 to 2018.
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Tanya Hosch is a social inclusion advocate, and a member of both Chief Executive Women and the NAB Indigenous Advisory Group.
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During last summer’s devastating bushfires, millions of Australians looked to then NSW Rural Fire Service commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons for leadership and guidance.
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Warren Mundine is Chairman of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation and one of Australia’s most prominent Indigenous representatives.
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Grace Tame is your Australian of the Year, a leader of positive change, and a survivor-advocate for victims of sexual assault.
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Thursday 11 February at 8:30pm
Live from Melbourne
It could be our 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 we live, work and travel?
Is our national strategy the right one?
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Nick Coatsworth, Deputy Chief Medical Officer
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Sharon Lewin, Leading infectious diseases expert and Director of the Doherty Institute
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Michelle Ananda-Rajah, Associate director, Monash Institute of Medical Engineering
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Tony Blakely, Epidemiologist and public health medicine specialist, University of Melbourne
Thursday 18 February at 8:30pm
Bargaining with Big Tech
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Paul Fletcher, Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts
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Michelle Rowland, Shadow Communications Minister
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Julie Inman Grant, eSafety Commissioner; Australia’s eSafety Commissioner. In this role, Julie leads the world’s first government agency committed to keeping its citizens safer online.
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Lydia Khalil, International security expert; Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute and the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University and a member of the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies.
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Hal Crawford, Media consultant and former news director
With a live performance from The Rubens
Looks like the show won’t move from Thursdays anytime soon.
Spotlight on Aged Care
Thursday 25 February at 8:30pm
On the eve of the Royal Commission’s final report into Aged Care, Q+A takes a close look at what needs to change when it comes to caring for our elderly.
The pandemic has exposed deadly failings and nightmare stories of neglect for those in the sector.
Have lessons been learnt? Are there are alternative models for aged care we should be exploring?
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Katie Allen, Liberal Member for Higgins; Katie Allen is the Federal Member for Higgins in Melbourne’s inner east. She has lived in Higgins for 40 years after growing up in Albury NSW.
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Clare O’Neil, Shadow Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services; Clare O’Neil was first elected as the member for Hotham (previously held by Simon Crean) in 2013, and after re-election in 2016 she was promoted to Labor’s front bench as Shadow Minister for Justice.
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Mike Baird, CEO of HammondCare and Former NSW Premier; Mike Baird was appointed CEO of HammondCare, an independent Christian charity that provides health and aged care services, in September 2020.
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Jane Halton, Health expert and former head of Australia’s Finance Department; Jane Halton is the chair of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and co-chair of the COVAX initiative.
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Joseph Ibrahim, Professor at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, Joseph Ibrahim is a medical specialist in geriatrics and an academic Professor and Head of the Health Law and Ageing Research Unit at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University.
While Q&A won’t go anywhere in the immediate future, I think if the low ratings continue in the long run (if anything I expect them to get worse once Thursday Night AFL/NRL returns) then 2021 will likely end up being the final year.
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All About Women
Thursday 4 March at 8.30pm
With the Brittany Higgins scandal and growing number of sexual assault claims engulfing our Federal parliament, Q+A brings together a diverse panel of women to discuss gender, justice and equality.
It’s now clear that the very institution responsible for enacting and protecting peoples’ rights has systemic problems in the way it treats women. What urgent changes are needed to end Canberra’s toxic culture of silence? And is it any different in the business world for women? Or in the world of law and technology? How far has feminism brought us and what is the role of men in ending the power imbalance?
Q+A is live from Sydney on Thursday, March 4 at 8.30pm AEDT.
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Isabel Allende, Internationally acclaimed author and feminist; At 78, legendary Chilean writer Isabel Allende has seen first-hand what feminism has accomplished in her lifetime.
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Susan McDonald, Queensland National Party Senator; Susan McDonald is the chairman of the Federal Government’s Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport committee.
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Anne Aly, WA Labor MP; Dr Anne Aly is the Labor MP for the Perth metropolitan seat of Cowan, which she first won in the 2016 election and retained in 2019.
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Samantha Maiden, National Political Editor; Samantha Maiden is the political editor for news.com.au. She won a Walkley award for her coverage of federal politics and Scott Morrison’s secret bushfire holiday to Hawaii in 2020.
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Dhanya Mani, Lawyer and former NSW Liberal Party staffer; Dhanya Mani is the founder of ‘Changing Our Headline’ - a campaign to create a safe, healthy and feminist culture in Australia’s Parliaments and workplaces.
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Kate Crawford, Academic and leading artificial intelligence expert; Kate Crawford is a leading international scholar of the social implications of artificial intelligence.
With a live performance from Somalian poet Hani Abdile; Hani Abdile is a writer, student and spoken-word poet based in the country of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, in Sydney.
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Very dumb decision the ABC Moved Q&A to Thursday Nights. Because of the move i’ve literally forgotten the show exists now.
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Few technical hiccups at the start of Q&A tonight.
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Thursday 11 March
Live From Melbourne
There’s lots to discuss this week:
Australia’s economic rebound: who is leaping ahead and who is falling behind?
In three weeks, JobKeeper payments will come to an end and the true state of our economy will be revealed. Will more businesses go under? Will more job losses eventuate?
We’ll also discuss the interview the world has been waiting for - Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. The Duchess of Sussex has revealed when she was first pregnant with son Archie there were “concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born”.
And we’ll look at our trade relationship with China, the vexed issue of agricultural exemptions for net zero targets, and whether it’s time to re-think our COVID border restrictions?
We’re also is hoping to cross live to Cairns to take some questions from residents of the area. If you’re a Cairns local with a question for Dan Tehan and the panel, head over to the Ask a Question page.
Q+A is live from Melbourne on Thursday, March 11 at 8.350pm AEDT.
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Zed Seselja Minister for International Development and the Pacific; After serving in various assistant ministerial roles, Zed Seselja was appointed Minister for International Development and the Pacific in December 2020.
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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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Fiona Simson, President, National Farmers’ Federation; Fiona Simson is a strong supporter of Australian agriculture and has been leading the way for future generations of farmers through her active agricultural advocacy roles.
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Gareth Parker Breakfast host, 6PR Perth; Gareth Parker is an award-winning journalist who took over 6PR Perth Breakfast in 2021 after a successful four-year, agenda-setting run on Mornings.
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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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Consent
Thursday 18 March
A petition by a Sydney school girl has put the spotlight on an epidemic of sexual violence against Australian teenagers by their peers. It’s prompted moves by government to improve consent education in our schools. But is it enough?
With Australian of the Year Grace Tame inspiring a movement of passionate women and the Brittany Higgins scandal engulfing our Federal parliament, thousands have taken to the streets demanding justice for women.
On Thursday night Q+A brings together students, parents, experts and educators for 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 daily lives of Australian girls and women.
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Yumi Stynes; Broadcaster and author, Welcome to Consent; Yumi Stynes is a broadcaster and writer who’s been working in Australian media for almost two decades. Her forthcoming book, out this year, is about consent.
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Briony Scott; Principal, Wenona School; Dr Briony Scott is an Australian educator and columnist, and the Principal of Wenona in North Sydney, an independent K-12 girls school.
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Michael Salter; Associate Professor of Criminology, UNSW; Scientia Associate Professor Michael Salter is a criminologist at the University of New South Wales, where he studies gendered violence and complex trauma.
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Yasmin Poole; 2021 Youth Influencer of the Year; Yasmin is an award winning speaker, writer and youth advocate. She is Plan International’s National Ambassador and champions the importance of young women being heard in Australia’s political conversations.
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Joe Williams; Former NRL player and mental health advocate; Joe Williams is a Wiradjuri/Wolgalu, First Nations man born in Cowra, NSW, who has advocated for mental health awareness through his The Enemy Within foundation.
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What are the odds Yumi says something that frightens the horses?
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Fixing the Future
Live from Melbourne
Thursday 26 March
With the world in lockdown and the showdown with China accelerating, the West must now adapt to a world it no longer dominates.
Our current political, justice and economic systems are unable to resolve the current global crises, nor bridge the growing divides of wealth, gender and race.
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?
We’re at a turning point now - how do we proceed?
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Stan Grant; Journalist and author; Stan Grant was born in Griffith, NSW, and is a proud Wiradjuri man. His forthcoming book, With the Falling of the Dusk, “explores what is driving the world to crisis and how it might be averted”.
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Bruce Pascoe; Author, Dark Emu; Bruce Pascoe is the author of Dark Emu, which explores the history of Aboriginal agriculture and prompted a discussion about Australian history. His is also still a country A-grade cricketer.
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Sam Mostyn; President, Chief Executive Women; Sam Mostyn is a businesswoman and sustainability adviser, with a long history of executive & governance roles across business, sport, climate change, the arts, policy, and NFP sectors.
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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, having joined UNSW in 2009 after six years at the University of South Australia.
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Adam Creighton; Economics editor, The Australian; Adam Creighton is The Australian’s economics editor, and has a special interest in tax and financial policy.
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Also joining the conversation:
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Thomas Piketty; Internationally renowned economist; Thomas Piketty is Professor at EHESS and at the Paris School of Economics and the author of international best-sellers Capital in the 21st century and Capital and ideology.