Monday,24 October – 9.35pm on ABC, simulcast LIVE at 9:35pm (AEDT) on iview, ABC NewsRadio & ABC News 24*
Joining host Tony Jones on the Q&A panel in our Sydney studio to discuss the big issues on the national agenda will be:
• Former Editor-in-chief of The Australian Chris Mitchell
• Writer and Emeritus Professor of Politics at La Trobe University Robert Manne
• Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek
• Investigative journalist and global expert on human trafficking Christine Dolan
• Cabinet Secretary Arthur Sinodinos
Q&A is simulcast LIVE around the country on ABC TV, ABC News 24, ABC NewsRadio and iview. Australia Plus Television also broadcasts Q&A in to Asia and the Pacific.
Members of the public can:
• Register to be part of the Q&A LIVE studio audience at: abc.net.au/qanda
• Submit questions for the panel, also at: abc.net.au/qanda
• Contribute to the discussion via Q&A’s Twitter highlights feed, using #qanda
• Submit live questions via Twitter using #qanda and @qanda
• Follow @qanda on Twitter to receive first-hand updates about the program and panel members.
*Airs on ABC News 24: QLD 8.35pm; SA 9.05pm; NT 8.05pm; WA 6.35pm
Leslie Nassar, who introduced live Twitter feed to Q&A, has been killed in Idaho in the US by an alleged drunk driver in a hit and run while walking with two of his children. The children were injured but had since been released from hospital while the driver was later arrested.
Nassar was known for his satirical column at Crikey and Department of Australia, and co-founded creative technology company Wrangling Cats last year along with Andrea Horton.
Monday 31 October – 9.35pm on ABC, simulcast LIVE at 9:35pm (AEDT) on iview, ABC NewsRadio & ABC News 24*
On Monday’s Q&A, an opportunity to discuss the national issues that flow from a community between the junctions of the Murray, Darling and Murrumbidgee rivers. A community at the borders of NSW and Victoria and oh so close to South Australia. A community facing the challenges of modern agriculture, food security, regional services, land and water management.
Q&A live from the Mildura Arts Centre Theatre.
Joining host Tony Jones on the Q&A panel will be:
• Minister for Health and Aged Care Sussan Ley
• Shadow Minister for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon
• General Manager of I Love Farms Emma Germano
• Head of Sunraysia Mallee Ethnic Communities Council Dean Wickham
• Avocado farmer & mental health advocate Katrina Myers
Q&A is simulcast LIVE around the country on ABC TV, ABC News 24, ABC NewsRadio and iview. Australia Plus Television also broadcasts Q&A in to Asia and the Pacific.
Members of the public can:
• Register to be part of the Q&A LIVE studio audience at: abc.net.au/qanda
• Submit questions for the panel, also at: abc.net.au/qanda
• Contribute to the discussion via Q&A’s Twitter highlights feed, using #qanda
• Submit live questions via Twitter using #qanda and @qanda
• Follow @qanda on Twitter to receive first-hand updates about the program and panel members.
*Airs on ABC News 24: QLD 8.35pm; SA 9.05pm; NT 8.05pm; WA 6.35pm
Ummm these three people are the Sunraysia-Mallee region I assume? If the show is to be filmed in Mildura then local people should be invited as panellists.
No they shouldn’t. Don’t film in local areas if you’re going to put a bar on who can be on the show.
It’s an opportunity for local people, if the show is in the area, to question people of importance - not to chat to the person they see down at the pub anyway.
You don’t see the big deal? You don’t have to imagine or see any deal. I put the issue in plain English for you already - our national broadcaster should not be setting aside an hour of prime time discussion for nobodies.
The issues raised are often international and national news and current affairs - we don’t need a hyper local panel simply because it’s in Mildura. Just like we don’t need solely Sydney panels for shows based in Sydney.
If there was someone prominent from the town - great. Otherwise, it shouldn’t make any difference where the show is being filmed.
Monday 14 November – 9.35pm on ABC, simulcast LIVE at 9:35pm (AEDT) on iview, ABC NewsRadio & ABC News 24*
On Monday’s Q&A panel we consider what President Trump will mean for the relationship with our most important ally and the political lessons for Australia as our government confronts the human impact of a globalised and disrupted economic future.
Joining guest-host Virginia Trioli on the Q&A panel to help make sense of the historic events will be:
• Deputy Prime Minister and Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce
• Shadow for Vocational Education Kate Ellis
• Trump voting policy analyst Helen Andrews
• Security and Diplomacy professor, RMIT University Joseph Siracusa
• US Studies Centre lecturer Jennifer Hunt
Q&A is simulcast LIVE around the country on ABC TV, ABC News 24, ABC NewsRadio and iview. Australia Plus Television also broadcasts Q&A in to Asia and the Pacific.
Members of the public can:
• Register to be part of the Q&A LIVE studio audience at: abc.net.au/qanda
• Submit questions for the panel, also at: abc.net.au/qanda
• Contribute to the discussion via Q&A’s Twitter highlights feed, using #qanda
• Submit live questions via Twitter using #qanda and @qanda
• Follow @qanda on Twitter to receive first-hand updates about the program and panel members.
*Airs on ABC News 24: QLD 8.35pm; SA 9.05pm; NT 8.05pm; WA 6.35pm
Monday 21 November – 9.35pm on ABC, simulcast LIVE at 9:35pm (AEDT) on iview, ABC NewsRadio & ABC News 24*
This week on the 2016 finale of Q&A we wrap up the year in Australian politics as the world looks forward to a new era of politics.
Joining host Tony Jones on the Q&A panel will be:
Liberal Senator for Tasmania Eric Abetz
Queensland Labor frontbencher Terri Butler
Screenwriter and columnist Benjamin Law
Playwright, performer and commentator Nakkiah Lui
The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan
And to close the show – an original musical item from the Wharf Revue.
Q&A is simulcast LIVE around the country on ABC TV, ABC News 24, ABC NewsRadio and iview. Australia Plus Television also broadcasts Q&A in to Asia and the Pacific.
Members of the public can:
Register to be part of the Q&A LIVE studio audience at: abc.net.au/qanda
The world may be, but you can bet this programme doesn’t.
This programme is such a troll. Loud, assertive right-winger put up against quietly spoken female left-winger (who is clearly always seething below the surface, having noted her Parliamentary performances). I wonder how this will play out in front of a left-wing audience.
If you’re going to have one personality type representing one side of politics one week, then ensure there is balance with a raving lefty the next.
Oops. I got the female left-winger wrong. Guess they had two on the panel.
So predictable, both the programme itself, and Fairfax’s prominent write up the next day.
Never mind the fact what she was saying was factually incorrect. That there is a carve out in the law for artistic expression. That the cartoon illustrated a scenario which displays the lack of parenting that so many Aboriginals themselves raise awareness of in remote communities. The cartoon did not portray an entire race of people. Example: cartoon makes fun of white, Sydney western suburbs mother on the choice of name for her children - this portrays a group of people, not a race.
But apparently, it was racist because she is Aboriginal. Ooh. Smack down. End of story. No time for facts or nuanced debate.
It doesn’t affect everyone, so it doesn’t need to be changed, she further proffered. Never mind the prominent court cases last week that showed complaints under this section of the Racial Discrimination Act for damages to not have any legal merit. Forget all that. Senators shouldn’t be discussing laws. They’re not law-makers working in the Parliament which makes laws, and amends them, in the face of court decisions (oops, actually they are). The Senator was apparently abusing his position discussing the amendment of a law (!), mistakenly described as a personal agenda (so personal, that four individuals were hauled before the courts).
Powerful, independent female Aboriginal silencing angry old Eric Abetz? Left-wing orgasm.
Oh, Christ. Just re-read the article again. They actually say she silenced the room. Beyond parody.
And she apparently ‘threw shade’ on her opponents. Is this written by a uni student politician?
And what was her golden quote for the night? Comparing the US to something titled ‘Turd Island’. How charming. How insightful.
The ABC does a great disservice to political debate in this country with this programme, with its ill-informed participants, who are, quite often, complete morons.
See, the problem is that this programme is so infrequently watched, and Fairfax now so diminished in Australia, for these threads of conversation to be tested with the public. If they were, you’d have Trump & Brexit times 10 in this country. Serious nonsense.
Perhaps. The critique of a show like Q&A, its effect on politics, and how media organisations such as Fairfax subsequently cover politics, should be bread and butter for a forum that calls itself MediaSpy. However, these days, we have to be content with inane commentary here on TV Week magazine and Home & Away.
Haha oh please, this thread gets 5 comments per year in it. And 4 of those are TV.Cynic posting the press release telling us who’s on the show in advance.
But in any case, they’re just the words used by Fairfax, and the words used by the legislation itself - it’s almost a conspiracy theory that you think discussing an article from a national newspaper is now somehow some kind of conspiracy theory.
