Q&A - Season 7

First aired: 2/3/2014 43 episodes
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Episodes

1. The ABC of Treachery

Aired: 2/3/2014

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.

2. Sochi, Inquiries & Subsidies

Aired: 2/10/2014

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.

3. A Vision for the Future

Aired: 2/17/2014

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.

4. Riots, Reforms & Resilience

Aired: 2/24/2014

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.

5. From Qantas to Manus

Aired: 3/3/2014

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.

6. Vilification, Discrimination & Defamation

Aired: 3/10/2014

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.

7. Biennale, Babies and Blokes

Aired: 3/17/2014

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.

8. Mad Monday

Aired: 3/24/2014

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.

9. Human Rights and Wrongs

Aired: 3/31/2014

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.

10. China: Evolution not Revolution

Aired: 4/7/2014

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.

11. Pensions, Promises & Power

Aired: 4/14/2014

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.

12. Lobbyists, Lies & Libertarians

Aired: 4/21/2014

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.

13. Death and Taxes

Aired: 4/28/2014

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.

14. Q & Anarchy

Aired: 5/5/2014

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.

15. Loopholes & Heavy Lifting

Aired: 5/12/2014

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.

16. Tough Questions for Joe Hockey

Aired: 5/19/2014

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.

17. Demos, Heroes and Menopause

Aired: 5/26/2014

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.

18. School Chaplains and Science Cuts

Aired: 6/2/2014

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.

19. Primates, Populism and Utopia

Aired: 6/9/2014

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.

20. Dating, Diplomacy & Disputes

Aired: 6/16/2014

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.

21. Big Ideas for a Big Country

Aired: 6/23/2014

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.

22. Giddy Up Geelong

Aired: 6/30/2014

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.

23. It's the economy, stupid!

Aired: 7/7/2014

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.

24. Conversations in Violence, Secrecy & Education

Aired: 7/14/2014

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.

25. Living with HIV, Looking to the Future

Aired: 7/21/2014

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.

26. Who Dunnit and How Do We Fix It?

Aired: 7/28/2014

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.

27. Live from Garma Festival, Arnhem Land

Aired: 8/4/2014

Live from North East Arnhem Land, Tony Jones is joined by Noel Pearson; Nova Peris; Ken Wyatt; Djawa Yunipingu; Joe Morrison; and Dhanggal Gurruwiwi.

28. Theology, Terror and Metadata

Aired: 8/11/2014

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.

29. Class, Cooling and Corruption

Aired: 8/18/2014

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.

30. Team Australia, Terror and Tinderboxes

Aired: 8/25/2014

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.

31. 100% Women 100% Dangerous

Aired: 9/1/2014

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.

32. Rupert, ISIS, ICAC & Super Freeze

Aired: 9/8/2014

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.

33. Science: Precious Petals to Passionate Teachers

Aired: 9/15/2014

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.

34. Be Alert but not Alarmed

Aired: 9/22/2014

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.

35. Earning, Learning and Yearning

Aired: 9/29/2014

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.

36. Mental As in Rockhampton

Aired: 10/6/2014

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.

37. Watching Watchers and Saving Lives

Aired: 10/13/2014

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.

38. Time Travel, Teaching and The Meaning of Life

Aired: 10/20/2014

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.

39. Ideology, Legacy and History

Aired: 10/27/2014

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.

40. National Security: Finding A Balance

Aired: 11/3/2014

Toughening terror laws - Attorney General George Brandis joins host Tony Jones on the panel, live from Bankstown.

41. This is your Brain on Climate Change

Aired: 11/10/2014

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.

42. From Political Summit to Political Satire

Aired: 11/17/2014

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.

43. Public Life and Public Progress

Aired: 11/24/2014

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.