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Panellists: David Morrison, 2016 Australian of the Year; Gordian Fulde, 2016 Senior Australian of the Year; Catherine Keenan, Australia's Local Hero 2016; Stan Grant, Sky News International Editor; and Manal Younus, 2016 SA Finalist Young Australian of the Year.
Panellists: Fiona Nash, Rural Health Minister; Catherine King, Shadow Health Minister; Neil Mitchell, Radio Broadcaster; Grace Collier, IR commentator & columnist The Australian; and Dave Oliver, ACTU Secretary.
Panellists: Steve Ciobo, Incoming Minister for Trade and Investment; Terri Butler, Labor Member for Griffith; Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens Senator; Mark Steyn, Conservative commentator and writer; and Lenore Taylor, Chief Political Correspondent The Guardian.
Panellists: David Kilcullen, Military Strategist and Author; Tanya Plibersek, Deputy Opposition Leader; Michael Keenan, Minister for Justice; Eldad Beck, Journalist; and Raihan Ismail, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, ANU.
Panellists: Bruce Billson, Liberal Party MP; Anna Burke, Former Speaker of the House; Lyle Shelton, Managing Director, Australian Christian Lobby; Michele Levine, CEO, Roy Morgan Research; and Kerryn Phelps, Former President of the Australian Medical Association.
Panellists: Michaelia Cash, Minister for Employment and Women; Penny Wong, Opposition Leader in the Senate; Alan Jones, Influential Radio Broadcaster; Mia Freedman, Co-founder, Mamamia women's network; and Josh Zepps, New York-Based Media Personality & Broadcaster.
Panellists: Brian Greene, Physicist and string theorist; Tamara Davis, Astrophysicist; Alan Finkel, Australia's Chief Scientist; Emma Johnston, Marine ecologist and TV host; and Upulie Divisekera, Molecular biologist and science communicator.
Panellists: Daniel Andrews, Premier of Victoria; Jacqui Lambie, Independent Senator for Tasmania; Josh Frydenberg, Minister for Resources and Energy; Clementine Ford, Fairfax columnist and feminist speaker; and Elizabeth Proust, Businesswoman and Chair, Bank of Melbourne.
Panellists: Wyatt Roy, Assistant Minister for Innovation; Ed Husic, Opposition innovation spokesman; Holly Ransom, Entrepreneur and youth advocate; Sandy Plunkett, Venture capitalist and consultant; and Michael Biercuk, Quantum physicist and technologist.
Panellists: Christopher Pyne, Industry, Innovation and Science Minister; Amanda Rishworth, South Australian Labor MP; Kelly Vincent, South Australian State MP; Greg Sheridan, Foreign Affairs Editor, The Australian; and Sameena Zehra, British Comedian.
Panellists: Germaine Greer, Feminist icon and provocateur; Theodore Dalrymple, Author and columnist; Sharman Stone, Liberal MP; Lisa Singh, Tasmanian Labor Senator; and Joseph Tawadros, Aria award winning oud virtuoso.
Panellists: Ewen Jones, Liberal MP for Herbert and Government Whip; Alannah MacTiernan, Shadow Parliamentary Sec. for Regional Development; John Hewson, Former leader of the Liberal Party; Caroline Overington, Writer and journalist; and Jane Caro, Author and social commentatorr
Panellists: John Haldane, Visiting Professor and Catholic intellectual; Julie McCrossin, Church elder and journalist; Ray Minniecon, Indigenous Anglican Pastor; Rev. Tiffany Sparks, Anglican Priest and representative for A Progressive Christian Voice; and Lyle Shelton, Managing Director, Australian Christian Lobby.
Panellists: James Fallows, American writer and journalist; Laura Tingle, Political Editor, The Australian Financial Review; George Megalogenis, Author and Commentator; Iain Walker, Executive Director, The newDemocracy Foundation; and Pru Goward, NSW Cabinet Minister.
Panelists: Chief Executive of the Australian Industry Group, Innes Willox, Council of Social Services head Cassandra Goldie, Shadow Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh, Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer, and the Greens' Treasury spokesman, Adam Bandt.
Panellists: Kate Tempest, Award-winning poet and rapper; Jean-Christophe Rufin, Co-founder, Medecins Sans Frontieres; Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Controversial Somalian feminist and author Heretic; Julian Baggini, Philosopher; and Emma Sky, Former adviser to the US military in Iraq.
Panellists: Christopher Pyne, Industry, Innovation and Science Minister; and Anthony Albanese, Shadow Infrastructure Minister.
Panellists: Steve Ciobo, Minister for Trade and Investment; Terri Butler, Labor Member for Griffith; Richard Di Natale, Leader of The Australian Greens; Nick Xenophon, Independent Senator for South Australia; and Jacqui Lambie, Independent Senator for Tasmania.
Panellists: Barnaby Joyce, Deputy Prime Minister; Joel Fitzgibbon, Shadow Minister for Agriculture; Tony Windsor, Former MP and Independent Candidate; Fiona Simson, Vice President of National Farmers' Federation; and Robbie Sefton, Farmer and Businesswoman.
Panellists: Bill Shorten, Leader of the Opposition.
Panellists: Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister of Australia.
Panellists: Mathias Cormann, Finance Minister; Tanya Plibersek, Deputy Opposition Leader; Chris Richardson, Economist; Marcia Langton, Professor of Indigenous Studies; and Alan Jones, Influential Radio Broadcaster.
Panellists: Josh Frydenberg, Minister for Resources and Energy; Chris Bowen, Shadow Treasurer; Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens Senator; Paul Kelly, Editor-at-large The Australian; and Holly Ransom, Entrepreneur and Youth Advocate.
Panellists: Josh Frydenberg, Minister for Resources and Energy; Chris Bowen, Shadow Treasurer; Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens Senator; Paul Kelly, Editor-at-large The Australian; and Holly Ransom, Entrepreneur and Youth Advocate.
Panellists: Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education; Sam Dastyari, Labor Senator for New South Wales; Larissa Waters, Queensland Greens Senator; Nick Xenophon, NXT Senator for South Australia; and Pauline Hanson, Queensland Senator-elect.
Questions:
NICE ATTACK - HOME GROWN TERROR
ISLAM ROYAL COMMISSION
ISLAM RISING?
ISLAMOPHOBIA & MY SON
PAULINE - COME TO DINNER
POLITICS: MINOR PARTY POWER
THE CROSSBENCH AND THE BUDGET
Panellists: Craig Laundy, Assistant Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science; Ed Husic, Opposition innovation spokesman; Gillian Triggs, President, Australian Human Rights Commission; Peter Kurti, Research Fellow, Centre for Independent Studies; and Shireen Morris, Constitutional reform research fellow, Cape York Institute.
Questions:
MINOR PARTY POPULISM
CHILDREN ABUSED IN PRISON
CONSTITUTIONAL RECOGNITION
ISLAM V ISIS
MUSLIM OPINION
FREE SPEECH
WOMEN & INNOVATION
HUMAN RIGHTS "TOOTHLESS TIGER"
Panellists: Matt Canavan, LNP Senator for Queensland; Lisa Singh, Tasmanian Labor Senator; Peter Singer, Renowned philosopher and ethicist; Celeste Liddle, Indigenous writer and commentator; and Kate Roffey, Former CEO of the Committee for Melbourne.
Panellists: Linda Tirado, American Anti-poverty Campaigner; Bob Carr, Former Foreign Minister; P.J. O'Rourke, Author and Satirist; Lydia Khalil, Middle East Analyst; and Crispin Rovere, US politics and defence policy analyst.
Panellists: Greg Hunt, Minister for Industry, Innovation & Science; Linda Burney, Shadow Minister for Human Services; Brian Cox, Particle Physicist and TV Presenter; Lily Serna, Mathematician and TV Presenter; and Malcolm Roberts, One Nation Senator-elect for Qld.
Panellists: Mitch Fifield, Minister for Communications; Catherine King, Shadow Health Minister; Corinne Grant, Comedian & Writer; Brendan O'Neill, Editor, spiked magazine; and Erin Watson-Lynn, Academic and entrepreneur.
Questions:
RACE & 18C
ANNABETH SIMPSON asked: Brendan O’ Neill: You wrote that you want section 18C torn up because you “trust Australians to use their unshackled reason to separate the good ideas from the wicked ones”. Growing up as a person of colour in Australia, I know that racial abuse is not an uncommon experience. In fact, despite being a respected pharmacist in his community for 16 years, my father is racially vilified on a regular basis.
Do you think the removal or changes to 18C that may give people more social license to racially discriminate is appropriate?
QUT &18C
BRADLEY HARVEY asked: This week, our Prime Minister and Treasurer have essentially said that they’re too busy to address concerns about the 18C law and the financial costs and reputational damage being incurred by three university students in Queensland. If free speech has become such a low priority for the Liberal Party, is it time for libertarian and conservative minded voters to find a new party to represent their views?
REVENGE PORN
KATELYN DUNN asked: Recently news broke of an online pornography ring targeting young women and girls from 74 Australian high schools. The ring trades sexually explicit images, all shared without consent, and some depicting unwitting victims as young as 14. Users of the website encourage each other to “go get em boys”, and also share the personal and private details of how to find these girls. Despite this, a statement from Queensland Police placed responsibility squarely at the feet of the underage victims and their parents, and claimed that initial investigations found that there were no clear acts of child exploitation.
My question is to the panel - in an era of revenge porn and online sharing, do you believe it
Panellists: Cassandra Goldie, Head of Australian Council of Social Service; Warren Mundine, Chair of the Indigenous Advisory Council; Sir Michael Marmot, President of the World Medical Association; Christine Bennett, School of Medicine, The University of Notre Dame; and Deborah Cobb-Clark, Professor of Economics , University of Sydney.
Panellists: John Bell, Founding Artistic Director, Bell Shakespeare; Kylie Farmer, Indigenous actor and Shakespeare translator; Germaine Greer, Feminist icon and provocateur; Kate Mulvany, Actor, playwright and screenwriter; and A.C. Grayling, Philosopher.ey.
Panellists: Bridget McKenzie, National Party Senator for Victoria; Doug Cameron, Shadow Minister for Human Services; Larissa Waters, Queensland Greens Senator; Rowan Dean, Editor, Spectator Australia; and Dai Le, Founder, Diverse Australasian Women's Network.
Panellists: Jimmy Barnes, Rock icon and author; Magda Szubanski, Actress and Comedian; Fiona Nash, Deputy Nationals Leader; Tony Burke, Manager of Opposition Business; and Jacqui Lambie, Independent Senator for Tasmania.
Panellists: Jay Weatherill, South Australia Premier; Penny Wong, Opposition Leader in the Senate; Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education; and Amanda Vanstone, Former Liberal Senator.
Panellists: Christian Porter, Minister for Social Services; Mark Butler, Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy; Marina Go, Media executive and author; Eva Cox, Author & social analyst; and Trisha Jha, Centre for Independent Studies.
Panellists: Shen Narayanasamy, No Business in Abuse and #LetThemStay campaigns; Jim Molan, Co-author of Operation Sovereign Borders; Jane McAdam, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW; Huy Truong, Refugee & entrepreneur; and Father Frank Brennan, Jesuit priest and Professor of Law.
CUB INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE
LABOR AND THE UNIONS
TRUMP: SUITABLE FOR OFFICE?
TRUMP BAD FOR CONSERVATISM?
SEXISM AND POLITICS
RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS
CAR MANUFACTURING DEAD
PLEBISCITE DEAD
GOVERNMENT DIVIDED
JACK BRESNAHAN asked: With the news this afternoon that the solicitor general has resigned because of the “broken relationship” with the Attorney General George Brandis, and the long running feud between Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull culminating in a show down over gun import restrictions last week and Liberal party reform, is this further evidence that the Liberal party, and in particular the conservative factions, are struggling to unite under a moderate leader, or is tension like this simply business as usual for political parties?
POLITICS & INFLUENCE OF MEDIA
DYLAN SUMMERELL asked: In the 2013 election, we saw headlines and front pages saying how much Australia needed Tony Abbott. In the recent election we saw newspapers positioning Turnbull as “our hero” and in the Gillard years I remember articles supporting the 'Ditch the Witch'.
Do you believe that Australian media is playing too big of a role in our elections?
“DEPLORABLES” OR VOTERS
STEVEN WENG asked: It is easy to condemn the words and actions of Trump, Farrage or even Pauline Hanson, but much harder to actually confront the democratic processes that put them there - without calling their supporters ignorant, racists, or to use the contemporary term, "deplorables". How do the major parties seek to engage voters who are clearly alienated by their mainstream representatives?
JOURNALISTIC CONFIDENTIALITY
GERALDINE WATERS asked: Who defines public interest when it comes to the private lives of politicians? How can journalists gain trust if they can’t guarantee confidentiality. What then happens to the truth?
NAURU SECRECY
KELLY HORAN asked:Teachers working in offshore detention facilities can face up to two years in prison if they speak out against the conditions in detention centres or provide information to journalists. Likewise, media access to offshore facilities is largely prevented. Despite these constraints, Four Corners went ahead with its program
