The Project rates much higher than Q&A recently and much higher in the demos.
Which isn’t saying much lol. Both have tanked.
Strange he’s disappearing after only a short spell.
As a NZer who enjoys tuning into ABC, it’s been sad seeing the ABC cuts folding out from afar. It would be sad to see another show disappear - albeit I wasn’t a regular viewer of Q&A. The time slot change seems to have been poorly received, although maybe too much current affairs on Monday night with Four Corners and Mediawatch already?
Is there any chance Nine could have offered him 60 minutes?
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60 Minutes currently has seven main reporters, with occasional contributions from Karl Stefanovic & Peter Overton.
Unless someone left, I’d be incredibly shocked if Hamish McDonald joined the stopwatch.
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That’s the only reason I could see him heading to Nine.
Another reason he might head to Nine, though very unlikely, is to join the news team and potentially take over the Friday and Saturday bulletins in Sydney, setting him up as Peter Overton’s successor.
Not going to happen any time soon.
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More chance of taking over from Rod Young or Rod Brough i.e., not at all
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Sorry, but what about his career to date suggests he’s interested in western suburban car crashes and crime that make up the commercial 6pm bulletins?
Assume it’ll be the project and a mix of filling in on the ABC - things like RN Breakfast. More or less what happened before q&a. If SBS was clever they’d snap him up for a world news show & podcast.
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I found him quite good on RN Breakfast, and his work there seems to take precedent over Q&A.
Odd that he is clearly leaving mid-contract, I do not think its a formal return to Ten, otherwise we would have had a press release by now saying so (unless its for a new program which I think is unlikely). I would not expect ABC to pay “gardening” leave.
My money would be on a return to an international news service and possible posting.
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Live from Melbourne
Thursday, July 29 at 8:30 pm
Sydney seems headed for an extended lockdown period, possibly into mid-September, as NSW continues to record high numbers of locally acquired cases. Friction has erupted between the Federal Government and NSW as Premier Gladys Berejiklian pushes for more vaccines while the PM seems to favour a harder lockdown. There are also fears of a new wave of infections following the weekend’s anti-lockdown rallies, in which thousands took the streets, mainly mask-less.
In south-west Sydney over one million people are in deep lockdown, many banned from travelling to work or on welfare support and ineligible for the Government’s disaster payments. NSW wants a new JobKeeper-like package introduced, and the ACTU supports a return to JobSeeker, but the Federal Government remains opposed to the idea. Meanwhile a 38-year-old Sydney woman died from Covid over the weekend, before she was eligible for the vaccine previously recommended for her age group. Should other states now be helping out NSW and sending vaccine doses to young essential workers in hotspots?
Plus we take a look at the ongoing, devastating impact of COVID-19 on Australia’s arts, entertainment and tourism sectors.
Q+A is live from Melbourne on Thursday, July 29 at 8.30pm AEST.
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Prof Deborah Cheetham AO describes herself as a 21st century urban woman who is Yorta Yorta by birth, stolen generation by government policy, soprano by diligence, composer by necessity and lesbian by practice.
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Andrew Bragg is a Liberal Senator for New South Wales.
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Chris Bowen entered Parliament in 2004. He is the Labor MP for McMahon, and the Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy.
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Clover Moore was elected Lord Mayor of Sydney in 2004, the first popularly elected woman to lead the City of Sydney.
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Michael Mohammed Ahmad is the founding director of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and editor of the critically acclaimed anthology After Australia (Affirm Press, 2020).
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So how many of the guests will be in the studio?
Not sure but sounds like Sydney guests will be definitely on video link.
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Deborah Cheetham was the only guest in the Melbourne studio last night.
Given the circumstances it worked well. The Uk equivalent to Q and A does this with its audience . And they can ask questions live. And had a combination of both in studio and video link guests .
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Apparently Stan Grant is filling in from Sydney next week.
Thursday 5 August
Stan Grant hosts Q+A live from Sydney on Thursday, August 5 at 8.30pm AEST.
This week Q+A looks beyond our locked borders to the rest of the world where life and economies are starting to open back up.
Britain is now living with COVID, and following a staged reopening, life is returning to normal. The virus has not been eliminated there, but high vaccination rates mean smaller numbers of deaths, and far fewer hospitalisations.
In the US, cities and states have sprung back to life, but the Delta variant is on the rise, and vaccination rates have slowed. Then on our doorstep, Indonesia is grappling with a deadly Delta surge and now has some of the highest daily COVID case and death numbers in the world.
What can we learn from these and other countries about a pathway out of COVID?
When will we reach herd immunity and see an end to lockdowns? Will vaccine passports and mandates become the norm?
And how do we shake our current obsession with daily case numbers and adopt a new mindset?
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Helen Clark co-chaired the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, which spent a year investigating the WHO’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding is an epidemiologist and health economist and a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington DC, and Chief Health Economist for Microclinic International.
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Yulia Supadmo is a communication specialist, spending most of her 20-year career as a broadcast journalist, specializing in international politics, strategic affairs and environment.
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Damien Cave is the Australian bureau chief at The New York Times and the author of Into the Rip: How the Australian Way of Risk Made My Family Stronger, Happier … and Less American.
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Julie Leask is a professor at the University of Sydney’s Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery and the University of Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases.
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After 20 years of print journalism including a stint as the editor of Business Review Weekly, Kate Mills left journalism to set up her own business finding jobs for skilled women looking to return to work.
