Q+A - Season 7 / Year 2014
Season 7 / Year 2014
Network
DatesFeb 3, 2014 - Nov 24, 2014
Episodes
Year 2014Episode 160 min
The ABC of Treachery
Tony Jones is joined by Minister for Agriculture Barnaby Joyce; Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; comedian Akmal Saleh; journalist and author Ray Martin; Head of ACOSS Cassandra Goldie; author and columnist Nick Cater.
Feb 3, 2014
Year 2014Episode 260 min
Sochi, Inquiries & Subsidies
Tony Jones is joined by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, comedian Dave Hughes, Australian Women Chamber of Commerce's Yolanda Vega, The Australian columnist Janet Albrechtsen.
Feb 10, 2014
Year 2014Episode 360 min
A Vision for the Future
Tony Jones is joined by Employment Minister Eric Abetz; Finance Shadow Minister Tony Burke; Reserve Bank of Australia board member Heather Ridout; Youth without Borders' Yassmin Abdel-Magied; UQ Law Professor James Allan.
Feb 17, 2014
Year 2014Episode 460 min
Riots, Reforms & Resilience
Tony Jones is joined by Assistant Minister for Infrastructure Jamie Briggs; Shadow Minister for Infrastructure Anthony Albanese; ACTU President Ged Kearney; MP Clive Palmer; Gulf War veteran Brigadier General Rhonda Cornum.
Feb 24, 2014
Year 2014Episode 560 min
From Qantas to Manus
Tony Jones is joined by Parliamentary Secretary to the PM Josh Frydenberg; Shadow Communications Minister Jason Clare; Chair of Manufacturing Australia Sue Morphet; musician David Bridie & editor-in-chief Katharine Viner.
Mar 3, 2014
Year 2014Episode 660 min
Vilification, Discrimination & Defamation
Tony Jones is joined by Attorney-General George Brandis; Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen; Professor of Indigenous Studies Marcia Langton; journalist Lisa Wilkinson; The Australian's media editor Sharri Markson.
Mar 10, 2014
Year 2014Episode 760 min
Biennale, Babies and Blokes
Tony Jones is joined by British musician Billy Bragg; The Hoopla's Wendy Harmer; Christian intellectual Miroslav Volf; Assistant Education Minister Sussan Ley; and Shadow Environment Minister Mark Butler.
Mar 17, 2014
Year 2014Episode 860 min
Mad Monday
Live from the Melbourne Recital Centre. Tony Jones is joined by actress Rachel Griffiths; media identity Eddie McGuire; trucking magnate Lindsay Fox; Liberal MP Kelly O'Dwyer; Shadow Immigration Minister Richard Marles.
Mar 24, 2014
Year 2014Episode 960 min
Human Rights and Wrongs
Tony Jones is joined by Egyptian author Mona Eltahawy; Human Rights Watch's Kenneth Roth; Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson; Somalian human rights activist Ilwad Elman; The Observer's ethics columnist Lucy Siegle.
Mar 31, 2014
Year 2014Episode 1060 min
China: Evolution not Revolution
Tony Jones hosts this special edition live from Shanghai. Joined by Former Ambassador to China Dr. Geoff Raby; Businesswoman and media executive Mei Yan; Greenpeace East Asia Program Director Ma Tianjie; Television Presenter Cheng Lei; and Chinese Australian artist Guo Jian.
Apr 7, 2014
Year 2014Episode 1160 min
Pensions, Promises & Power
Tony Jones is joined by Minister for Human Services Marise Payne; Opposition Senate leader Penny Wong; Restaurateur and chef Michelle Garnaut; conservative economist Judith Sloan; Tasmanian Senator-Elect Jacqui Lambie.
Apr 14, 2014
Year 2014Episode 1260 min
Lobbyists, Lies & Libertarians
Tony Jones is joined by former Foreign Minister Bob Carr; former NSW Opposition leader Kerry Chikarovski; author and social analyst Eva Cox; Spiked Online editor Brendan O'Neill; British violinist Nigel Kennedy.
Apr 21, 2014
Year 2014Episode 1360 min
Death and Taxes
Joining Tony Jones on the panel will be: Minister For Communications, Malcolm Turnbull; Shadow Minister Doug Cameron; editor Sarrah Le Marquand; TV presenter Andrew Neil and playwright Van Badham.
Apr 28, 2014
Year 2014Episode 1460 min
Q & Anarchy
Tony Jones is joined by Education Minister Christopher Pyne; Former Speaker of the House Anna Burke; actor and comedian aka 'Bob Downe' Mark Trevorrow; human rights lawyer Pallavi Sinha; IPA Executive Director John Roskam.
May 5, 2014
Year 2014Episode 1560 min
Loopholes & Heavy Lifting
On Budget Eve, Tony Jones is joined by Victorian Liberal MP Sharman Stone; Labor Member for Perth Alannah MacTiernan; journalist David Marr; finance expert Satyajit Das; Australian Industry Group's Innes Willox.
May 12, 2014
Year 2014Episode 1660 min
Tough Questions for Joe Hockey
Treasurer Joe Hockey will be the sole panellist in this post-Budget special hosted by Tony Jones. Live from Penrith, in Sydney's western suburbs.
May 19, 2014
Year 2014Episode 1760 min
Demos, Heroes and Menopause
Live from Sydney Writers' Festival. Tony Jones is joined by singer Kate Ceberano, author Tara Moss, novelist Richard Flanagan, comedian and author Jean Kittson, artist Tim Storrier.
May 26, 2014
Year 2014Episode 1860 min
School Chaplains and Science Cuts
Host Tony Jones is joined by Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi, Shadow Health Minister Catherine King; Former Lord Mayor of Sydney Lucy Turnbull; Spectator Australia's Rowan Dean; Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss.
Jun 2, 2014
Year 2014Episode 1960 min
Primates, Populism and Utopia
Tony Jones is joined by primatologist Jane Goodall; art educator Betty Churcher; conservative intellectual Peter Coleman; Indigenous leader Rosalie Kunoth-Monks; and Sydney Peace Foundation's Stuart Rees.
Jun 9, 2014
Year 2014Episode 2060 min
Dating, Diplomacy & Disputes
Tony Jones is joined by Parliamentary Secretary to the PM Josh Frydenberg; rising Labor star Ed Husic; author and advertising director Dee Madigan; Fijian women's advocate Virisila Buadromo; Law professor James Allan.
Jun 16, 2014
Year 2014Episode 2160 min
Big Ideas for a Big Country
Tony Jones is joined venture capitalist Mark Carnegie; former Federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham; author and social analyst Eva Cox; National Commission of Audit Chair Tony Shepherd; youth advocate Holly Ransom.
Jun 23, 2014
Year 2014Episode 2260 min
Giddy Up Geelong
Live from Geelong. Tony Jones is joined by Liberal MP Sarah Henderson; Shadow Immigration Minister Richard Marles; Greens Senator Richard Di Natale; Geelong Mayor Darryn Lyons; and Geelong Region Alliance CEO Elaine Carbines.
Jun 30, 2014
Year 2014Episode 2360 min
It's the economy, stupid!
Tony Jones is joined by Nobel Prize-winning American economist Joseph Stiglitz; distinguished government adviser Ross Garnaut; Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies' Christine Wong; and academic and columnist Judith Sloan.
Jul 7, 2014
Year 2014Episode 2460 min
Conversations in Violence, Secrecy & Education
Tony Jones is joined by Chief Government Whip Philip Ruddock; Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; comedian Charlie Pickering; Cape York Indigenous leader Tania Major; Headmaster of The King's School Tim Hawkes.
Jul 14, 2014
Year 2014Episode 2560 min
Living with HIV, Looking to the Future
Host Tony Jones is joined by former High Court Judge Michael Kirby; Indonesian Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi; co-discoverer of HIV Françoise Barré-Sinoussi,; former Liberal Senator Amanda Vanstone; HIV activist Nic Holas.
Jul 21, 2014
Year 2014Episode 2660 min
Who Dunnit and How Do We Fix It?
On the panel: Hercule Poirot aka actor David Suchet; The Nationals Deputy Leader Barnaby Joyce; Environment Shadow Minister Mark Butler; PM's Literary Awards Fiction Chair Louise Adler; Joe Hockey's biographer Madonna King.
Jul 28, 2014
Year 2014Episode 2760 min
Live from Garma Festival, Arnhem Land
Live from North East Arnhem Land, Tony Jones is joined by Noel Pearson; Nova Peris; Ken Wyatt; Djawa Yunipingu; Joe Morrison; and Dhanggal Gurruwiwi.
Aug 4, 2014
Year 2014Episode 2860 min
Theology, Terror and Metadata
Tony Jones is joined by former Labor Minister Greg Combet; Assistant Minister for Education Sussan Ley; Editor of FreedomWatch Simon Breheny; visiting Christian scholar John Stackhouse; human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson.
Aug 11, 2014
Year 2014Episode 2960 min
Class, Cooling and Corruption
Tony Jones is joined by Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss; Labor Senate Leader Penny Wong; Leader of the Palmer United Party Clive Palmer; Chair of AustralianSuper Heather Ridout; social justice advocate Dr John Falzon.
Aug 18, 2014
Year 2014Episode 3060 min
Team Australia, Terror and Tinderboxes
Live from Melbourne Writers Festival. Tony Jones joined by former Foreign Minister Gareth Evans; political journalist Paul Kelly; Indonesian observer Elizabeth Pisani; Iranian-Australian author Ali Alizadeh; cross-cultural consultant Tasneem Chopra.
Aug 25, 2014
Year 2014Episode 3160 min
100% Women 100% Dangerous
From the Festival of Dangerous Ideas: American novelist Alissa Nutting; Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho; American commentator Kay Hymowitz; Australian feminist Jane Caro; Swedish anarcho-feminist Kajsa Ekis Ekman.
Sep 1, 2014
Year 2014Episode 3260 min
Rupert, ISIS, ICAC & Super Freeze
Tony Jones is joined by arts and media executive Kim Williams; Liberal Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells; Labor Senator Sam Dastyari; investigative journalist Kate McClymont; political satirist Jonathan Biggins.
Sep 8, 2014
Year 2014Episode 3360 min
Science: Precious Petals to Passionate Teachers
To discuss the future of science, Tony Jones is joined by molecular biologist Suzanne Cory, immunologist Peter Doherty; astrophysicist Brian Schmidt; Young Australian of the Year Marita Cheng; Chief Scientist Ian Chubb.
Sep 15, 2014
Year 2014Episode 3460 min
Be Alert but not Alarmed
Tony Jones is joined by Minister for Justice Michael Keenan, Shadow Attorney General Mark Dreyfus, counter terrorism expert Anne Azza Aly, Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, author and former lawyer Randa Abdel-Fattah.
Sep 22, 2014
Year 2014Episode 3560 min
Earning, Learning and Yearning
Tony Jones is joined by Education Minister Christopher Pyne; former Treasurer Wayne Swan; Head of the Australian Chamber of Commerce Kate Carnell; political editor Australian Financial Review Laura Tingle; actor Tony Barry.
Sep 29, 2014
Year 2014Episode 3660 min
Mental as in Rockhampton
To discuss mental health issues in regional Australia, Tony Jones is joined by psychiatrist Patrick McGorry; comedian Josh Thomas; mental health practitioner Louise Byrne; ACRRMH's Jennifer Bowers; Independent MP Bob Katter.
Oct 6, 2014
Year 2014Episode 3760 min
Watching Watchers and Saving Lives
With Catherine McGregor, advisor to Chief of the Air Force; human rights advocate Julian Burnside; The Australian's Greg Sheridan; Inquiry into Residential Housing Chair Kelly O'Dwyer; Shadow Education Minister Kate Ellis.
Oct 13, 2014
Year 2014Episode 3860 min
Time Travel, Teaching and The Meaning of Life
Tony Jones is joined by a panel of passionate people: physicist and former rock star Brian Cox; rapper Matt Colwell aka 360; conductor Richard Gill; mathematician Nalini Joshi; actor Miranda Tapsell.
Oct 20, 2014
Year 2014Episode 3960 min
Ideology, Legacy and History
Tony Jones is joined by human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson; Assistant Defence Minister Stuart Robert; Shadow Health Minister Catherine King; Gough Whitlam's biographer Jenny Hocking; Australian Spectator's Rowan Dean.
Oct 27, 2014
Year 2014Episode 4060 min
National Security: Finding A Balance
Toughening terror laws - Attorney General George Brandis joins host Tony Jones on the panel, live from Bankstown.
Nov 3, 2014
Year 2014Episode 4160 min
This is Your Brain on Climate Change
Tony Jones is joined by neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield; Minister for the Environment Greg Hunt; Shadow Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese; Youth Representative to the UN Laura John; the IPA's James Paterson.
Nov 10, 2014
Year 2014Episode 4260 min
From Political Summit to Political Satire
Tony Jones is joined by Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull; Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; comedy writer and author Ben Elton; journalist Jonathan Holmes; opinion editor Sarrah Le Marquand.
Nov 17, 2014
Year 2014Episode 4360 min
Public Life and Public Progress
Tony Jones is joined by Indigenous leader Noel Pearson; celebrated actor James Cromwell; former Howard Government Minister Amanda Vanstone; G20 Youth Summit chair Holly Ransom; RN Drive host Waleed Aly.
Nov 24, 2014
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