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Q&A

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Hosted by Hamish Macdonald, Q&A puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. It's about democracy in action - the audience gets to ask the questions.

May 22, 200814 seasons548 episodesReturning SeriesEN

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Seasons

Season 1

20 episodes

Premiered May 22, 2008

Season 2

32 episodes

Premiered Feb 12, 2009

Season 3

41 episodes

Premiered Feb 8, 2010

Season 4

41 episodes

Premiered Feb 7, 2011

Season 5

43 episodes

Premiered Feb 6, 2012

Season 6

45 episodes

Premiered Feb 4, 2013

Season 7

43 episodes

Premiered Feb 3, 2014

Season 8

43 episodes

Premiered Feb 2, 2015

Season 9

43 episodes

Premiered Feb 1, 2016

Season 10

43 episodes

Premiered Feb 6, 2017

Season 11

42 episodes

Premiered Feb 5, 2018

Season 12

44 episodes

Premiered Feb 4, 2019

Season 13

44 episodes

Premiered Feb 3, 2020

Season 14

24 episodes

Premiered Feb 4, 2021

Episodes

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Ep 1

The Rudd Files

May 22, 2008

60m

The Q&A season kicked off on May 22nd with the man in the top job. Kevin Rudd was in the hot seat with our sharp and always on-the-pulse audience including our SMS and online community.

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Ep 2

Tony, Tanya and Bob.

May 29, 2008

60m

Tony Abbott and Tanya Plibersek are back in the boxing ring for Q&A's second episode. Joining them are Bob Brown, Warren Mundine and Louise Adler for their first grilling by the Q&A punters.

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Ep 3

Round Three

Jun 5, 2008

60m

The headliners for June 5 were Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Tony Burke, author and lawyer Randa Abdel-Fattah, founder of Crikey Stephen Mayne and, The Australian newspaper's foreign editor Greg Sheridan.

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Ep 4

Boom shake shake shake the room!

Jun 12, 2008

60m

The headliners for 12 June, 2008 were the Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon, Senator George Brandis, associate professor Kate Crawford, Liberal MP Pru Goward and the Chaser's Charles Firth.

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Ep 5

Cheryl returns

Jun 19, 2008

60m

Freshly back in Australia, former leader of the Australian Democrats Cheryl Kernot joined Assistant Treasurer Chris Bowen, Shadow Minister for Justice Christopher Pyne, Ashfield Liberal council member Nick Adams, and, television presenter, radio host and comedian Julia Zemiro.

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Ep 6

The Young Guns

Jun 26, 2008

60m

The Young Guns…Two rising stars from the federal parliament, Labor's Bill Shorten and the Liberals' Greg Hunt, joined the Q&A panel this week. Find out how the new generation from each side of the political divide approached the issues of the day.

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