Q&A

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A special Q&A event in conjunction with the Festival of Dangerous Ideas live from the Opera House - this Monday, 1 October (AEST) at 9.35pm on ABC1 and ABC News 24 (Live). Host Tony Jones will be joined by:  Continue reading »

Monday, June 11 at 9.35pm (AEST) on ABC1 and ABC News 24

Q&A host Tony Jones will next week sit down with sole panellist – Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.

Viewers at home and the live studio audience will have the opportunity to have their questions answered directly by the Prime Minister – live, unscripted and unedited.

As always, Q&A will look to the audience to ask the questions and expect to cover a wide range of issues across the national agenda.

Monday, June 4 at 9.35pm (AEST) on ABC1 and ABC News 24

Next week Q&A and Tony Jones head to South East Queensland’s Garden City, Toowoomba, for its biggest Q&A show ever.
1300 audience members will pack Toowoomba’s Empire Theatre to see:
- Simon Crean – Federal Minister for Regional Australia and the Arts;
- Barnaby Joyce – Queensland Senator and Shadow Federal Minister for Regional Development;
- Christine Milne – Newly elected leader of the Greens;
- Jeremy Marou – Torres Strait Islands musician and grand nephew of Eddie Mabo

As always, Q&A will look to the audience to ask the questions and expect to cover a wide range of issues across the national agenda.

Monday, May 21 at 9.35pm (AEST) on ABC1 and ABC News 24

Next week Tony Jones will be joined on the Q&A panel by a range of international and Australian writers to celebrate the 15th year of the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

Joining Tony on the panel will be:
Jeffrey Eugenides – Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot
Kathy Lette – Exuberant Australian ex-pat and author
Glenn Carle – Former CIA interrogator turned writer
Greg Sheridan – Foreign Affairs Editor The Australian
Masha Gessen – Russian author and gay activist
As always, Q&A will look to the audience to ask the questions and expect to cover a wide range of issues across the national agenda.

Monday, May 14 at 9.35pm (AEST) on ABC1 and ABC News 24

Next week, host Tony Jones will be joined by:
Penny Wong – Federal Finance Minister
Joe Hockey – Federal Shadow Treasurer
Judith Sloan – Economist and businesswoman
Stephen Mayne – Crikey founder and shareholder activist
Tim Costello – CEO of World Vision Australia

As always, Q&A will look to the audience to ask the questions and expect to cover a wide range of issues across the national agenda.

Thursday, April 26 at 9:30pm (AEST) on ABC1

Tony Jones will this Thursday host a two-part special on an issue Australians have never been more divided on – climate change. Beginning at 8:30pm AEST on April 26 on ABC1, Tony Jones will first present the game-changing one-hour documentary I CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT CLIMATE followed by the interactive special Q&A: THE CLIMATE DEBATE (9:30pm AEST).

Joining Tony on the Q&A panel will be the key participants in the documentary – climate change ‘sceptic’ and former Liberal Senator Nick Minchin and Founder of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and climate change ‘believer’ Anna Rose. They will be joined by Chief Executive of the CSIRO, Dr Megan Clark, social researcher and writer Rebecca Huntley and mining magnate Clive Palmer.

9:30pm – Thursday, 26 April 2012 on ABC1

Additional members of the panel to be announced.

Members of the public can get involved in this Q&A in a variety of ways: Take the Climate Change Challenge at www.abc.net.au/tv/changeyourmind from April 2 and register your interest to be part of the live Q&A audience on April 26 th .

Or go to www.abc.net.au/qanda to register to be part of the live Q&A studio audience.

Visit the Q&A website to submit your questions.

Viewers can also contribute to the discussion via Q&A’s Twitter highlights feed, using #qanda.

And follow @abcqanda on Twitter to receive first-hand updates about the program and panel members.

Last night’s Q&A delivered its highest ratings since its debut in 2008 with 952,000 viewers (overnight) across ABC1 and ABC News 24. 

Featuring an exclusive two member panel of Cardinal George Pell and renowned atheist Richard Dawkins, the show also logged a record 1,300 Tweets-per-minute (47,530 Tweets in total from 11,703 people) as well as tracking 20,000 users on its new interactive voting tool, Q&AVote. 

Q&A Executive Producer, Peter McEvoy said “Religion, sex and politics are the three topics supposedly off limits in polite discussion but they’ve always been the mainstay of Q&A. 

“Our viewers enjoy the opportunity to ask the big questions and see contentious issues such as the existence of God vigorously debated,” he said. 

Next week’s Q&A (Monday, April 16 at 9:35pm AEST on ABC1 and ABC News 24) will also feature an impressive lineup of panelists:

A.C. Grayling – Philosopher

Geoffrey Robertson – International human rights lawyer

Lydia Khalil – Middle East analyst

Nicola Roxon – Attorney-General

Christopher Pyne – Shadow Minister for Education

Monday, April 2 at 9.35pm (AEST) on ABC1 and ABC News 24 

Next week, Q&A host Tony Jones heads to Hobart where he will be joined on the panel by: 

Brian Ritchie- Former bassist with The Violent Femmes now director of Hobart’s MONA Festival of Music and Art;

Natasha Cica – Director of the Inglis Clark Centre for Civil Society;

Julie Collins – The Minister for Community Services;

Eric Abetz – Liberal Senate Leader;Terry Edwards – CEO of the Forest Industry Association;

Andrew Wilkie – outspoken Independent MP for Denison and anti-gambling campaigner

As always, Q&A will look to the audience to ask the questions and expect to cover a wide range of issues across the national agenda.