Q+A - Season 8 / Year 2015

Q+A - Season 8 / Year 2015

Season 8 / Year 2015

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DatesFeb 2, 2015 - Nov 23, 2015
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Episodes

Elections, Economics & Knightmares
Year 2015Episode 160 min

Elections, Economics & Knightmares

Tony Jones is joined by Former ALP Treasurer, Wayne Swan; Minister for Agriculture, Barnaby Joyce; Greens Senator for Queensland, Larissa Waters; and Independent Senators, John Madigan and Jacqui Lambie.
Feb 2, 2015
Spills, Bills, Coal & Kills
Year 2015Episode 260 min

Spills, Bills, Coal & Kills

Tony Jones is joined by broadcaster Alan Jones; Assistant Infrastructure Minister Jamie Briggs; Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen, Chair of AustralianSuper Heather Ridout; and comedian and writer Corrine Grant.
Feb 9, 2015
Death, Detention and Defending Policies
Year 2015Episode 360 min

Death, Detention and Defending Policies

Panellists Malcolm Turnbull, Minister for Communications; Catherine King, Shadow Health Minister; Lisa Wilkinson, Journalist; Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative; & Greg Sheridan, Foreign Affairs Editor, The Australian.
Feb 16, 2015
Family Violence Special
Year 2015Episode 460 min

Family Violence Special

Panellists: Aus of the Year, Rosie Batty; Aus Ambassador for Women, Natasha Stott Despoja; Acting VIC Police Commissioner, Tim Cartwright; Indigenous anti-violence campaigner, Charlie King; & Men's Counsellor, Simon Santosha.
Feb 23, 2015
Economics, Regulations & One Word
Year 2015Episode 560 min

Economics, Regulations & One Word

Panellists: Star of stage and screen, Miriam Margolyes; Assistant Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg; Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Andrew Leigh; Centre for Independent Studies, Trisha Jha; & Editor In Chief of Mamamia, Jamila Rizvi.
Mar 2, 2015
Bad Feminism: Contradictions and Careers
Year 2015Episode 660 min

Bad Feminism: Contradictions and Careers

To celebrate 40 years of IWD a special Q&A with guest host Annabel Crabb. Annabel Crabb guest hosts Q&A with a panel including Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop; Feminist icon, Germaine Greer; Author, Roxane Gay; CEO of Best & Less, Holly Kramer & Engineer and youth advocate, Yassmin Abdel-Magied.
Mar 9, 2015
Intergenerational Wealth and Health
Year 2015Episode 760 min

Intergenerational Wealth and Health

An Intergenerational Report special. Joining Tony Jones is Treasurer Joe Hockey; Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen; ACOSS CEO Cassandra Goldie; CEO of Australian Chamber of Commerce Kate Carnell & public policy expert John Daley.
Mar 16, 2015
When the Bush Came to Town
Year 2015Episode 860 min

When the Bush Came to Town

Live from the Royal Easter Show, Tony Jones is joined by National Party Senator Fiona Nash; Shadow Minister for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon; Country musician Troy-Cassar-Daley; Orchardist Robyn Clubb; and cattleman Rob Cook.
Mar 23, 2015
Depression, Drugs and Another Planet
Year 2015Episode 960 min

Depression, Drugs and Another Planet

Host Tony Jones is joined by panellists Education Minister Christopher Pyne; Opposition Senate Leader Penny Wong; Comedian Ruby Wax; Musician and humanitarian Michael Franti & Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Brian Schmidt.
Mar 30, 2015
Political Tensions and Children in Detention
Year 2015Episode 1060 min

Political Tensions and Children in Detention

Greek musical legend Nana Mouskouri joins Tony Jones on the Q&A panel with: Parl Sec to the Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer; Labor Member Ed Husic; Australian Financial Review Editor, Michael Stutchbury; & playwright Van Badham.
Apr 6, 2015
Vaccinations, Press Freedoms & Forced Closures
Year 2015Episode 1160 min

Vaccinations, Press Freedoms & Forced Closures

Panellists: Journalist Peter Greste; Asst Minister for Social Services Mitch Fifield; Shadow Parl Sec for Regional Development Alannah MacTiernan; CEO Regional Aus Institute Su McCluskey; & NITV News' Malarndirri McCarthy.
Apr 13, 2015
Drinking, Depression and Deportation
Year 2015Episode 1260 min

Drinking, Depression and Deportation

Joining Tony Jones: Journalist Derryn Hinch; Minister for Trade & Investment, Andrew Robb; Former Speaker of the House, Anna Burke; Comedian Dave Hughes; CEO of the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, Jane Burns.
Apr 20, 2015
ANZAC Spirit, Modern Warfare and Marriage
Year 2015Episode 1360 min

ANZAC Spirit, Modern Warfare and Marriage

On the panel this week: Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos; Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; Former deputy PM Tim Fischer; Historian Carolyn Holbrook; & Deputy Program Director, Human Rights Watch Tom Porteous.
Apr 27, 2015
Assault, Altruism and Emissions
Year 2015Episode 1460 min

Assault, Altruism and Emissions

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Philosopher & ethicist, Peter Singer; Environment Minister, Greg Hunt; Shadow Environment Minister, Mark Butler; Broadcaster & commentator, Amanda Vanstone; & US performer, Adrienne Truscott.
May 4, 2015
Struggle Street on Budget Eve
Year 2015Episode 1560 min

Struggle Street on Budget Eve

Panellists: Clive Palmer, Leader of the Palmer United Party; Christian Porter, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister; Nakkiah Lui, Playwright; Jason Clare, Shadow Communications Minister; and Jennifer Hewett, Political journalist.
May 11, 2015
Death Cults, Brains & Migration
Year 2015Episode 1660 min

Death Cults, Brains & Migration

On the Q&A panel this week, we feature some of the brightest stars from this year's Sydney Writers' Festival: Norman Doidge; Caitlin Doughty; Douglas Coupland; Mohsin Hamid and Christina Lamb.
May 18, 2015
Joe Hockey on the Tradies vs Ladies Budget
Year 2015Episode 1760 min

Joe Hockey on the Tradies vs Ladies Budget

This week Tony Jones is joined by the Treasurer of Australia, Joe Hockey to face a LIVE studio audience & respond directly to their post-budget questions.
May 25, 2015
War Cries, Citizenship & Crime Prevention
Year 2015Episode 1860 min

War Cries, Citizenship & Crime Prevention

Joining Tony Jones LIVE on the panel: Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg; Shadow Minister for Infrastructure Anthony Albanese; Actor and elder Jack Charles; Policy analyst Miriam Lyons; and Businesswoman Judith Sloan.
Jun 1, 2015
Revolutionary Christianity, Citizenship & Incarceration
Year 2015Episode 1960 min

Revolutionary Christianity, Citizenship & Incarceration

Panellists: Christine Forster, City of Sydney Councillor; Dr Cornel West, Scholar and Poet; Philip Ruddock, Special Envoy for Citizenship; Katy Gallagher, Senator for the Australian Capital Territory; and Bates Gill, CEO of US Studies Centre.
Jun 8, 2015
Magna Carta Magna QandA
Year 2015Episode 2060 min

Magna Carta Magna QandA

Q&A marks the 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta with an episode from Parliament House in Canberra. Joining Tony Jones on the panel are Bronwyn Bishop, Noel Pearson, Gillian Triggs, Luca Belgiorno-Nettis & Bret Walker.
Jun 15, 2015
Terror, Poverty & Native Titles
Year 2015Episode 2160 min

Terror, Poverty & Native Titles

Panellists: singer Antony Hegarty; Parl. Sec for Foreign Affairs Steve Ciobo; Shad Min. for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon; lobbyist Grahame Morris; Advertising director Dee Madigan; & anti-poverty campaigner Linda Tirado.
Jun 22, 2015
Radicalisation, Religion & Recognition
Year 2015Episode 2260 min

Radicalisation, Religion & Recognition

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Dep Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; Editor-at-large The Australian Paul Kelly; Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss; Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson; counter-terrorism expert Dr. Anne Aly.
Jun 29, 2015
Greece, Gags & Grazing Land
Year 2015Episode 2360 min

Greece, Gags & Grazing Land

On the panel: Vrasidas Karalis, Professor of Modern Greek; Shadow Minister for Immigration Richard Marles; Greens Senator Larissa Waters; policy analyst Trisha Jha & foreign affairs editor Greg Sheridan.
Jul 6, 2015
Peace, Ideology & Free Speech
Year 2015Episode 2460 min

Peace, Ideology & Free Speech

On the panel: Former Liberal leader John Hewson, Shadow Assistant Minister for Education Amanda Rishworth, war correspondent Michael Ware, scholar John Stackhouse, and Director of Polling at the Lowy Institute Alex Oliver.
Jul 13, 2015
Choppers, Coal & Community
Year 2015Episode 2560 min

Choppers, Coal & Community

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Former Deputy PM, Tim Fischer; Broadcaster, Alan Jones; Senator, Jacqui Lambie; Shadow Environment Minister, Mark Butler & Mining and development strategist Katherine Teh-White.
Jul 20, 2015
Culture of Change
Year 2015Episode 2660 min

Culture of Change

Joining Virginia Trioli LIVE from Brisbane: QLD Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk; Catholic Archbishop Mark Coleridge; Fmr Nats Senator Ron Boswell; Policy Analyst Prof Anne Tiernan; Innovation Strategist Monica Bradley.
Jul 27, 2015
New Frontiers & Next Bold Missions
Year 2015Episode 2760 min

New Frontiers & Next Bold Missions

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Director of NY's Hayden Planetarium Neil de Grasse Tyson; Oncologist and author Ranjana Srivastava; Broadcaster and maths geek Adam Spencer; and Marine ecologist Beth Fulton.
Aug 3, 2015
Perks, Penalty Rates & Life in Space
Year 2015Episode 2860 min

Perks, Penalty Rates & Life in Space

Joining Tony Jones: astronaut Chris Hadfield; Assistant Minister for Vocational Education Sharon Bird; author/feminist Anne Summers; Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and journalist Joe Hildebrand.
Aug 10, 2015
Ethics, Equality & Evasion
Year 2015Episode 2960 min

Ethics, Equality & Evasion

Joining Tony Jones on the Q&A panel: Greens leader Richard Di Natale; Parl Sec to the Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer; Labor Senator Sam Dastyari; British Editor Brendan O'Neill; and Traditional marriage advocate Katy Faust.
Aug 17, 2015
Public Life & Political Memoirs
Year 2015Episode 3060 min

Public Life & Political Memoirs

Joining Virginia Trioli from the Melbourne Writers Festival, publisher Louise Adler; Former Qld Premier Anna Bligh; Former Howard Cabinet insider Peter Reith; Former Independent MP Tony Windsor; & author Annabel Crabb.
Aug 24, 2015
Cheating, Climate, War & Democracy
Year 2015Episode 3160 min

Cheating, Climate, War & Democracy

Joining Tony Jones live from the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney Opera House: Climate activist Naomi Klein; Christian philosopher Miroslav Volf; Tariq Ali; Feminist Laurie Penny & American Review Editor Tom Switzer.
Aug 31, 2015
Drowning in Desperation to Dying with Dignity
Year 2015Episode 3260 min

Drowning in Desperation to Dying with Dignity

Panellists: NSW Premier, Mike Baird; Shadow Treasurer, Chris Bowen; Pres of Business Council of Aus, Catherine Livingstone; Human Rights Lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson & International Editor of The Economist, Helen Joyce.
Sep 7, 2015
A New Prime Minister, New Leadership
Year 2015Episode 3360 min

A New Prime Minister, New Leadership

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Folk legend Joan Baez; Former Liberal leader John Hewson; Labor member for Griffith, Terri Butler; World Vision CEO Tim Costello; and Editor of The Spectator Australia, Rowan Dean.
Sep 14, 2015
Bill Shorten in Ballarat
Year 2015Episode 3460 min

Bill Shorten in Ballarat

Live from Ballarat. This week we dissect the policies of the federal opposition, when Tony Jones is joined on the panel for a special one on one with Bill Shorten, the leader of the Australian Labor Party.
Sep 21, 2015
Conservatives, China & Chris Brown
Year 2015Episode 3560 min

Conservatives, China & Chris Brown

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce; Shadow Health Minister Catherine King; Journalist David Marr; Museum Director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor & Executive Director of the IPA, John Roskam.
Sep 28, 2015
Shine a Light on Depression
Year 2015Episode 3660 min

Shine a Light on Depression

Mental As Q&A shines a light on depression - one of the most common yet misunderstood mental illnesses in Australia. On the panel: Ian Hickie; Wayne Schwass; Professor Pat Dudgeon; Fay Jackson; and Dr. Roderick McKay.
Oct 5, 2015
Social Cohesion, Offshore Detention & Factions
Year 2015Episode 3760 min

Social Cohesion, Offshore Detention & Factions

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Australia's first indigenous Federal Minister Ken Wyatt; Labor Senator Lisa Singh; Greens MP Adam Bandt; Muslim Community Leader Sheikh Wesam Charkawi; and soprano Tania de Jong.
Oct 12, 2015
Friends and Allies in Foreign Policy
Year 2015Episode 3860 min

Friends and Allies in Foreign Policy

A foreign affairs special panel: Former Foreign Minister Bob Carr; CEO Lowy Institute Michael Fullilove; Former diplomat Alison Broinowski; Director Of Advocacy, Human Rights Law Centre Emily Howie; Melbourne Uni's Sow Keat Tok.
Oct 19, 2015
Country Life, CSG and Cannabis
Year 2015Episode 3960 min

Country Life, CSG and Cannabis

Live from Toowoomba with guest host Tom Ballard. Panellists: Rural Health Mininister Fiona Nash; Shadow Minister for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon; Southern Qld Uni's Jan Thomas; Toowoomba Mayor Paul Antonio; Singer Katie Noonan.
Oct 26, 2015
GST, Gonski, Population and Diversity
Year 2015Episode 4060 min

GST, Gonski, Population and Diversity

Joining Tony Jones on the panel: ecologist & biologist Paul Ehrlich; Minister for Education & Training Simon Birmingham; Shadow Finance Minister Tony Burke; Comedian & Broadcaster Wendy Harmer & Businesswoman Dai Le.
Nov 2, 2015
Facing Death
Year 2015Episode 4160 min

Facing Death

Joining Tony Jones are Broadcaster Andrew Denton; doctor/author Karen Hitchcock; palliative care specialist Ralph McConaghy; terminal cancer patient Ana Lamaro & doctor/euthanasia advocate Rodney Syme.
Nov 9, 2015
Paris, Syria & South Australia
Year 2015Episode 4260 min

Paris, Syria & South Australia

Joining Tony Jones in Adelaide: French Ambassador Christophe Lecourtier, security consultant Andrew MacLeod, Federal Minister Christopher Pyne; Shadow Minister Kate Ellis; Sen. Nick Xenophon & youth advocate Holly Ransom.
Nov 16, 2015
Racists, Extremists and Economists
Year 2015Episode 4360 min

Racists, Extremists and Economists

Joining Tony Jones are Environment Minister Greg Hunt; Anthony Albanese; Geraldine Brooks; Former Finance Minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis; Judith Sloan & from the Australian Muslim Women's Centre Tasneem Chopra.
Nov 23, 2015

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