ive been watching on and off. missed last night due to being out (and it seems NewsRadio has dropped the radio simulcast of the show) so i’ll have to catch it on iview.
It probally helped Chalmers it was in Logan (where his seat is based)
Monday May 27, 2024
Political uprisings and bloody conflict are reshaping the world and Australia’s place in it. On Q+A, a panel of big thinkers with deep connections to help you make sense of it.
The Middle East and Ukraine are locked in protracted wars. Indigenous New Caledonians are violently protesting France’s imposition of voting reforms. The US is a powder keg in an election year pitting an unpopular president against a populist plagued by legal challengers - and both vowing to crack down on migration. Record numbers of forcibly displaced people - not just from war but by environmental disasters and rapid climate change - have created a global refugee crisis. The wounds of colonialism - the loss of life, culture, history and sovereignty - remain painful for many. The cohesion of communities - in Australia, too - is fraying.
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born novelist and academic with a Nobel Prize and a fascinating personal story as a refugee to Britain. Julian Borger is a Washington-based correspondent with experience reporting across the US, Europe and the Middle East. Professor Deborah Cheetham Fraillon is an internationally renowned opera composer and performer with her own story of colonialism and displacement as a member of the Stolen Generation. And Maher Mughrabi is a senior editor of Palestinian heritage who’s written extensively and personally on the Middle East.
Q+A is live from Sydney on Monday, May 27 at 9.35pm AEST.
On the Panel
Julian Borger
World Affairs Editor, The Guardian
Julian Borger is The Guardian’s World Affairs Editor, based in Washington. Julian was part of the Guardian team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for its coverage of the Snowden files on mass surveillance.
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Author & Academic
At 18, Abdulrazak Gurnah arrived in England as a refugee from the Zanzibar Revolution. Receiving the Nobel Prize more than 50 years later, he reflected that the “prolonged period of poverty and alienation” he experienced made him a writer.
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon
Soprano, composer & human rights advocate
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO (Yorta Yorta/Yuin) soprano and composer is a respected human rights advocate and recognised thought leader on the importance of cultural authority in the Art Music space.
Alisa Sopova
Ukrainian journalist
Alisa Sopova is a journalist and an anthropologist whose work focuses on civilian experiences of the war in Ukraine. Having experienced military violence first-hand, she has devoted her career to exploring storytelling as a means to convey the true-to-life experiences of daily life during the war.
Maher Mughrabi
Features Editor, The Age
Maher Mughrabi is Foreign Editor of the Age and Sydney Morning Herald. He has previously worked at the Independent, the Scotsman, the Daily Mail and the Khaleej Times. In 2015, Arena Journal published his essay on the ‘Arab Spring’ and its aftermath, entitled ‘Hunting Leviathan in the Middle East’.
Mid-season Final is 3 June; following Monday is repeat programming before Monday’s Experts begins 17 June.
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Monday June 3, 2024 - midseason final
Amid war, mass displacement and economic uncertainty, fragile democracies are being put to the test – with big ramifications for Australia. On Q+A, how 1.2 billion voters in India, the US and UK could reshape the world.
Q+A is live from Sydney on Monday, June 3 at 9.35pm AEST.
On the Panel
Michael Gawenda
Journalist & author
Michael Gawenda is one of Australia’s best known and respected journalists and commentators. Gawenda was a political reporter, a foreign correspondent based in London and in Washington, a columnist and a feature writer.
Nick Bryant
Author and former BBC correspondent
During a career spanning almost thirty years, Nick Bryant came to be regarded as one of the BBC’s finest foreign correspondents. His writing has appeared in The Economist, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Monthly and The New Statesman.
Jennifer Robinson
Human rights lawyer & barrister
Jen Robinson is an Australian international human rights lawyer and author. She has acted in key international law, free speech, human rights and climate change cases in the UK and internationally, including before the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and UN bodies.
Jonathan Biggins
Actor, writer & satirist
Jonathan Biggins is an actor, director, writer, corporate speaker, MC and corporate entertainer based in Sydney. He has played Peter Sellers in Ying Tong, Koko in The Mikado, co-created the Wharf Revue since 2000, written for the Good Weekend for seven years, and directed the Australian productions of Avenue Q and Noises Off.
Parnell Palme McGuinness
Policy strategist & commentator
Parnell Palme McGuinness is Managing Director of Strategy and Policy at Agenda C and regular columnist on culture and politics for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Anderson appeared at Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications yesterday.
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Monday Experts finishes on Monday 5 Aug. Q+A returns the following week 12 Aug at 9:35pm.
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Has anyone missed Q&A?
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Monday 12 August 9:35pm
Q+A is coming to Queanbeyan on Monday August 12 at 9.35pm AEST.
The ABC’s flagship platform for big ideas and bigger debate returns as political hostilities resume after the winter break.
Live from the Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, a short drive from Parliament House in the battleground seat of Eden-Monaro, a panel of politicians will take YOUR questions on the cost of living, policy divides and an uncertain world – with a Nobel Prize-winning economist and one of the country’s leading business journalists to keep them honest.
On the Panel
Bill Shorten
Minister for NDIS & Government Services
Bill Shorten is Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme and Minister for Government Services, and was leader of the Australian Labor Party from 2013 to 2019.
Jane Hume
Shadow Minister for Finance & the Public Service
Jane Hume is the Shadow Minister for Finance, the Public Service and Shadow Special Minister of State.
Born and raised in Melbourne, Senator Hume was elected in 2016.
Jacqui Lambie
Independent Senator for Tasmania
Jacqui Lambie was born and grew up in Devonport, a city on Tasmania’s rugged Northwest Coast. She’s had ten years of experience in the military working in transport and the military police before she was medically discharged. Her experience fighting the DVA for compensation for her injuries made her vow to get into parliament and ‘fix’ the problems in the Department of Veteran Affairs.
Joseph Stiglitz
Nobel Prize-winning economist and Columbia professor
Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning economist, former chief economist of the World Bank and best-selling author.
Michael Stutchbury
Outgoing Australian Financial Review Editor-in-Chief
Michael Stutchbury has just stepped down after nearly 13 years as Editor-in-Chief of The Australian Financial Review, making him the longest serving editor or editor-in-chief of an Australian national newspaper.
Cost of living and the proposed ban on gambling advertising were two major topics discussed on last night’s show.
Monday, August 26
Coming up on Q+A… the challenge to democracy; rioting in the UK, a US election like never before and here in Australia people are feeling disconnected from the political process and that their voices aren’t being heard.
Q+A is broadcasting from Sydney on Monday, August 26 at 9.35pm AEST.
On the Panel
Anne Aly
Following the election of the Albanese Government, Anne was appointed Minister for Youth and Minister for Early Childhood Education – becoming the first Muslim woman to serve as a Commonwealth Minister.
Keith Wolahan
Keith Wolahan was elected to the seat of Menzies in May 2022. He was educated at the University of Melbourne and Monash University, and later completed a Masters of International Relations at the University of Cambridge. He served in the Australian Army (part-time and full-time service), reaching the rank of Captain. He qualified as a commando, serving one tour of Timor Leste and three combat tours in Afghanistan.
George Brandis
Professor at the National Security College, ANU
Professor George Brandis KC was appointed Professor in the Practice of National Security at the National Security College, Australian National University, following his return to Australia after four years as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist; the novel An Untamed State, a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize; the New York Times bestselling memoir Hunger; and the short story collections Difficult Women and Ayiti.
David Runciman
Professor of Politics, University of Cambridge
David Runciman is a Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge and was Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies from 2014-2018.
Overhead near start of show that someone was unwell and going back to their hotel halfway through. What was that about? Who was it?
He was unwell and joined the show from his hotel room and said he wouldn’t be available for the whole hour. He was farewelled after 25 minutes.
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Q + A in Dandenong
Monday 2 September 9:25pm
Q+A is back on the road and we’re headed to Dandenong, a vibrant cross-section of Australia in Melbourne’s outer south-east.
The working-class area has been hit hard by cost of living and mortgage stress. It’s one of the most culturally diverse areas in the country, amid bitter debate in Canberra on Gazan refugees and warnings from the Prime Minister of deteriorating social cohesion.
Our panel of political players, commentators and community representatives will debate the economy, immigration, multiculturalism and the issues that matter most to locals.
On the Panel
Julian Hill
Assistant Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs
Julian Hill proudly represents the south-east Melbourne electorate of Bruce, one of Australia’s most multicultural areas. Julian served as a Mayor and as a senior public servant before entering Parliament, and led several powerful committees before his appointment as Assistant Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs in July 2024.
Zoe McKenzie
Zoe McKenzie was elected as Member for Flinders on 21 May 2022. Prior to her election to the House of Representatives, Zoe ran a small business international trade and was a board director, living on the Southern Mornington Peninsula.
Jon Faine
Jon Faine is a Vice Chancellors Fellow at the University of Melbourne for 2022 and 2023, attached to The Melbourne Law School but with a roving commission across the entire university. Until October 2019 Jon Faine was the host of the agenda-setting morning broadcast for ABC Radio in Melbourne for over twenty years. Before joining the ABC in 1989 to host ‘The Law Report’ on Radio National, Jon had practised for seven years in both commercial litigation and as a legal aid/human rights advocate.
Nyadol Nyuon
Lawyer & human rights advocate
Nyadol Nyuon is a lawyer, community advocate and writer. Born in a refugee camp in Itang, Ethiopia and raised in Kenya’s Kakuma camp, she moved to Australia as a refugee at 18. She has completed a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne.
Maria Thattil
Maria Thattil is a multi-award winning media personality, actor, Penguin published author, TEDx speaker, presenter, columnist and creator. With a social media fanbase of over half a million people across her platforms, her appeal continues to escalate because of her staunch advocacy for diversity, warm personality, quick wit and intelligent insights.
Q+A Housing Special
Monday, September 9 at 9.35pm
It’s a basic right – a roof over our heads – that’s become one of the greatest social and public policy challenges of our times.
There’s a crippling shortage of housing in Australia – and we’re falling behind ambitious build targets. Interest rates are stuck high and straining mortgage-holders. Owning has become a vital nest egg and lucrative investment for some, but out of reach for many. Renters are crying out for cost relief and legal protection.
On Q+A, the federal minister and shadow responsible go head-to-head on your questions. And two of the sharpest economic and policy minds help break down the problem – and advocate solutions that could really make a difference.
Q+A will broadcast from Sydney on Monday, September 9 at 9.35pm AEST.
ON THE PANEL
Clare O’Neil
Minister for Housing & Homelessness
Clare was elected to Federal Parliament in 2013 and represents the electorate of Hotham in Melbourne’s South East. In 2022, Clare was appointed the Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Cyber Security and became a Cabinet member. In 2024, she became Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness.
Michael Sukkar
Shadow Minister for Housing & Homelessness
Michael Sukkar is the Federal Member for Deakin and the Shadow Minister for Social Services, NDIS, Housing and Homelessness. During the last term of government, Michael was the Assistant Treasurer, Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness, Social and Community Housing.
Aruna Sathanapally
Grattan Institute CEO
Dr Aruna Sathanapally joined Grattan Institute as CEO in February 2024. She heads a team of leading policy thinkers, researching and advocating policy to improve the lives of Australians. A former NSW barrister and senior public servant, Aruna has worked on the design of public institutions, economic policy, and evidence-based public policy and regulation for close to twenty years.
Alan Kohler
Finance journalist & commentator
Alan Kohler has been a financial journalist for 46 years. He has been working for the ABC for 24 years, first as business editor of the 7.30 Report and then host of Inside Business and finance presenter on ABC News.
Q+A is having another break from 23 September
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Q+A will broadcast from Newcastle next Monday (September 16), before the scheduled break.
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Q+A in Newcastle
Monday, September 16 at 9.35pm
Q+A heads to Newcastle to discuss issues affecting the regions and regional cities including jobs and manufacturing, defence, energy, nuclear and the economy! Plus news of the week.
On the Panel
Tim Ayres
Assistant Minister for Trade & Future Made in Australia
Tim Ayres is the Assistant Minister for a Future Made in Australia and the Assistant Minister for Trade in the Albanese Labor Government.
Barnaby Joyce
Shadow Minister for Veterans’ Affairs
Barnaby Joyce is the Nationals Member for New England and former Deputy Prime Minister
Kate Carnell
Business director
Kate Carnell is a company director and small business advisor. Kate has extensive experience and knowledge in the business sector, having run her own pharmacies for 15 years before becoming ACT Chief Minister in 1995 for a five-year period.
Dee Madigan
Creative Director & Author
Dee is the ECD and a founding partner of Campaign Edge. She is one of Australia’s leading campaign strategists and effectively uses creativity as a tool to persuade an audience. She has worked on over 20 election campaigns and was the Creative Director for the 2022 Australian Labor Party election win.
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