They really need a mute button on Hollie Hughes tonight.
Show coming from Brisbane this week. Will be inter to see who hosts, considering Hamish is currently in Sydney.
Matt Wordsworth could host.
He’d probably be good, also has had previous national exposure as a fill-in presenter on 7.30 and Lateline.
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Thursday 1 July at 8.30pm
Live from Melbourne
Up to 12 million Australians are in lockdown, or heading that way, as four states now race to contain outbreaks of the Delta variant of COVID-19.
South East Queensland, Magnetic Island and Townsville have gone into a three day snap lockdown. Perth and the Peel region have entered a four-day lockdown. And the Northern Territory has extended its stay-at-home orders until Friday. In New South Wales, the Sydney outbreak shows no sign of ending quickly - with another 19 cases identified today - and Treasurer Dominic Perrotet has unveiled a business rescue package.
Confusion has followed the Prime Minister’s announcement that Australian adults aged under 40 will finally be allowed to request the AstraZeneca vaccine, even though Pfizer is the preferred option for that age group. Scott Morrison has also announced mandatory vaccinations for aged care workers and plans to indemnify doctors against the very rare risk of blood clots. A revamped quarantine scheme will now mandate quarantine workers be both vaccinated and tested, and domestic travellers will be separated from higher-risk international travellers.
Meanwhile, when it comes to vaccinations, it seems we have 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 we’ll look at what else is making news this week including Barnaby Joyce copping a $200 fine for not wearing a mask.
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Annastacia Palaszczuk was sworn in as Premier of Queensland on 14 February 2015 following the state election on 31 January 2015.
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Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah is a doctor in infectious diseases and general medicine at a major Melbourne hospital.
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Stephen Duckett is Director of the Health and Aged Care Program at Grattan Institute.
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Jennifer Hewett is the National Affairs Columnist for The Australian Financial Review , specialising in coverage of business and politics and writing a daily column.
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ABC posted info about a meeting with ECAJ 2 wweks ago.
Thursday 8 July at 8:30pm
Live from Melbourne with guest host David Speers
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has unveiled a four-stage plan to lead us out of the COVID pandemic, but without any clear targets or timelines attached, how effective will it be?
Meanwhile, the Coalition Government faces fresh accusations of sexism from former Liberal MP Julia Banks who alleges she was subjected to an unwanted sexual advance at work from a cabinet minister. And a recent report shows the Government splashed $660 million on car parks, overwhemingly located in Liberal seats in the lead up to the last election. Is this worse than the so-called ‘sports rorts’ affair?
Plus, with world renowned ethicist Peter Singer on the panel, we’ll take a look at the global issue of vaccine equity, and Singer’s new Journal of Controversial Ideas – in which authors have the option of publishing under a pseudonym. Will this create a safe space for bold ideas, or simply enable shirking of accountability?
Q+A is live from Melbourne with guest host David Speers on Thursday, July 8 at 8.30pm AEST.
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Peter Singer’s work on ethics and altruism has led to journalists labelling him as the “world’s most influential living philosopher”.
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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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Senator Malarndirri McCarthy is Labor Senator for the Northern Territory and a Yanyuwa woman from the Gulf country in the Northern Territory.
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Santilla Chingaipe is a journalist, filmmaker and author, whose work explores colonialism, slavery and post-colonial migration.
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Cameron Stewart is an Associate Editor of The Australian. He was previously The Australian’s Washington correspondent, covering the Donald Trump era from late 2016 to early 2021.
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Q&A will be based out of Melbourne for at least the next month. Virginia Trioli will be guest hosting.
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Thursday 15 July at 8:30pm
Sydney’s lockdown is set to be extended after an alarming increase in daily recorded cases, with some health experts tipping it could go on for another four weeks. The NSW and federal governments will announce support payments to businesses struggling to survive in lockdown. The situation is deteriorating rapidly, with more than 60 patients in hospital, and growing numbers in ICU, many of whom are young people.
South West Sydney is being targeted by the NSW government and police, as the area records the most new cases, but many locals say the focus is unfair and discriminatory.
Victoria is also on high alert after three positive cases were identified in a family returning from NSW. Separately, two removalists from Sydney have also tested positive, sending an apartment block in Melbourne’s north-west into immediate quarantine. Meanwhile Queenslanders and Territorians in NSW are being advised to go home as soon as possible.
In a major change to the vaccine rollout in NSW, Astra Zeneca will now be offered to anyone aged over 40, and the Government has released a dramatic new ad depicting a young woman with Covid, on a ventilator struggling to breathe, in an effort to encourage people to get vaccinated.
Meanwhile, Former PM Kevin Rudd says he contacted the Pfizer boss in America, to ramp up arrival of vaccine supplies, and while the Government disagrees, there is growing frustration with their problematic vaccine procurement strategy.
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Marylouise McLaws is an epidemiologist with expertise in hospital infection and infectious diseases control.
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With over three decades of industry experience and some highly opinionated commentary, current affairs commentator and talk show presenter Steve Price has become an Australian household name.
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Dr Mukesh Haikerwal is a Melbourne-based doctor who has been on the front line of the COVID-19 response in Victoria.
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Meshel Laurie is a television, radio, and podcasting broadcaster, and the author of five books.
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Alison Pennington is Senior Economist at the Centre for Future Work, associated with The Australia Institute.
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Anyone else think the amount of guest hosts this year is odd?
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I think its partially due to travel restrictions…
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So I take it it will be from Brisbane or Adelaide from next week, if the Victorian lockdown goes longer.
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Or it will continue in Melbourne with either no audience or a significantly reduced one. I’m assuming that is most likely since I’m sure key staff would need to travel out of Victoria if the show was relocated, and QLD has already declared VIC a hotspot. Unsure if SA has as well. Didn’t they just do the show from Melbourne without an audience last year?
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Hamish Macdonald farewells the ABC
Hamish Macdonald is farewelling the ABC after an outstanding 18 months with the national broadcaster in which he anchored flagship discussion program Q+A, regularly presented RN Breakfast, hosted the Reef Live event, filed for Foreign Correspondent and reported from the field during the 2020 bushfires.
“I am enormously grateful for the opportunity I’ve been given to host Q+A and to work alongside wonderful, talented and passionate people,” said Macdonald. “I am really proud of what we’ve achieved together during these extraordinary times.
“I’d also like to thank the incredible Q+A audience for all they contribute to this program each week. It is, after all, their show. Their questions and stories from all corners of Australia are inspiring, revealing and clever – and it has been a privilege to receive and read them.
“I’m really excited to be moving on to a new opportunity, and working more with the ABC in the future.”
Macdonald steered Q+A through challenging times during the initial coronavirus lockdown as well as guiding the program through the first timeslot change in its 13-year history to 8.30pm Thursdays.
“Everyone at the ABC thanks Hamish for the incredible job he has done,” said the ABC’s Director, News Gaven Morris. “At one stage during the lockdown he was presenting a live panel discussion program that wasn’t allowed to have either an audience or panellists in the studio. His experience and versatility came to the fore.
“Hamish has long been a part of the ABC family and we look forward to continuing that relationship when opportunities arise.”
With lockdowns continuing, Q+A will continue to be hosted where it’s possible to have a studio audience, with a rotation of the ABC’s very best live presenters.
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Please don’t tell me he’s going back to 10?