Julia Gillard to face Q & A forum
She's not getting a Debate on Sunday, but on Monday night Prime Minister Julia Gillard will have one with the Q & A audience.
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She’s not getting a Debate on Sunday, but on Monday night Prime Minister Julia Gillard will have one with the Q & A audience.
To be broadcast live from Adelaide, a studio audience will put its questions direct to the PM. Host Tony Jones will also ask questions received from viewers (and the Twitter feed should be downright hilarious).
Gillard would appear to be the sole guest on Monday, although this isn’t the first time that’s happened. Unless of course the Real Julia Gillard decides to debate her…
This is a chance for viewers to see the real Julia in action, as she answers their questions on the issues they find most pressing during this election campaign.
Members of the public can get involved in a variety of ways:
* Go to abc.net.au/qanda to register to be part of the live Q&A studio audience;
* The website is also the place to go to submit questions, and to upload video questions;
* Viewers can also contribute to the discussion via Q&A’s Twitter highlight’s feed, using #qanda and submit video and written questions via the website;
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thanks for the heads up
Suspiciously no questions about that ridiculous internet filter?
There is debate with Conroy and his counterparts at 1pm Tuesday on Sky.
Tony Jones, like Kerry O’Brien grills Labor as much as he does Liberal and National pollies on their respective programs. Julia will not be in for an easy hour
with some provocative questions sure to come from the audience, and Tony will show his muscle as well.
i wonder witch Julia will turn up on Monday.
Julia from the Today show on 9 or the Julia from TT on 7.
It sounds a bit like a labor party program with Jones and Gillard chatting away. I bet he will not interrupt Julia the same way he is always interrupting coalition guests.
Negosiate
next stop should be 7pm Project for Gillard, 900,000 may see real Julia?
Instead of Tony Jones asking questions why do we have Alan Jones or an Andrew Bolt asking questions. Will it be a comfy safe programme to do?
Mark Habib & Bill Shorten should be there to explain machine politics, and why they lost their way as true labor men
With so much media saturation, and ministers from all sides popping up on Sky, 7.30 Report, Insight – etc – a vehicle that has a large audience – around 700,000
is smart plotting. For political tragics like myself, daily doses of various pollies gives me lots of crapola to wade through – but for those who watch far less – an appearance on 60 minutes or TT or 7.30 is a better reach for more votes. Julia threw down her gauntlet on TT – one and a half million viewers – now Q&A – Smart!
Glad to see Julia has got the guts to face the inquiring peoples… Tony is looking a little yellow 😛
I’m looking forward to this. Good for you Q&A.
Please people, ask Julia questions about Policy, not about trivia (we’ve had more than our fair share of trivial sidetracking questions so far)….
Yay…….At least one of them is on. Shame Tony Abbott can’t be on as well. Personally I don’t care where it is at least we, the people, get to question one of our possible future Prime Ministers.
Tony Jones did make the offer to Gillard and Abbott on Monday night to appear on the show before the election so things must have developed in the past few days for this to occur. Let hope no school children are in the audience to ask Gillard questions after Kevin Rudd poor showing on the show at the start of the year.
@Parsha I don’t think so. The “campaign trail” changes overnight depending on polling and announcement opportunities. As for available studio space and resources, I imagine this is almost an OB for Q&A, similar to their trip to Brisneyland recently. There must be a real reason and I am still wondering whether Gillard’s camp wanted Adelaide for some reason, such as an easy audience. They’ve already got SA and Vic in the bag, and the election won’t be won or lost with those voters, so why play it so safe?
So apparently both leaders were asked! Are we going to get Abbott at the last minute?
why adelaide? fits into the campaign trail and also available studio space and resources.
I’m so pleased. Finally some real questions to be fired at a contender. Just a pity Abbott won’t front up … or will he? This might put some pressure on as I think Ms Gillard will go up in some people’s estimation if she’s able to show she really is a thinking, breathing human being.
Why do it from Adelaide? Is that a softer audience for Gillard?
Looking forward (or should it be moving forward) to some probing questions especially from Tony Jones but somehow it could be a love in. The opposition also needs to be scrutinised at some point.