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Q & A introduces audience polling

Q & A will introduce interactive electronic polling for its studio audience this Thursday night following the Leaky Boat doco.

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This Thursday night a special edition of Q & A will air following the documentary premiere Leaky Boat on ABC1.

Q & A: Stopping the Boats will discuss how Australia should be dealing with the problem of boat arrivals.

For the first time the show will use a new system of interactive electronic polling which will measure the changing attitudes of the studio audience as the debate unfolds.

Guests include:

Chris Bowen, Minister for Immigration
Scott MorrisonShadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
Sarah Hanson-Young, Australian Greens Senator
Najeeba Wazefadost, Afghan Refugee and Advocate
David Marr, Journalist and author of Dark Victory
Piers Akerman, Columnist for The Daily Telegraph

This airs Thursday, 7 July at 9.30pm on ABC1 following Leaky Boat.

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  1. I cannot understand this – why are Iraqis and Afghans regarded as bad people when they come to Australia by boat as refugees, yet we send our troops to these countries to fight for their land and to die fighting for them. Such hypocricy!
    Why doesn’t the Australian public demand an answer from the politicians on this?
    Wouldn’t it be better to spend our resources accommodating these refugees here, rather than send our troops there to get maimed or die?

  3. bettestreep2008

    Yes, I’m serious. It is coalition policy to increase our refugee intake from 13,750 per year to 15,000 per year, over the next three years.

    Look it up.

  6. 13xm4rk – are you serious?

    How do you interpret “stop the boats” with “increasing the refugee intake”???

    Watch Q & A and you’ll hear Morrisson and Ackerman bleat about there being too many refugees coming here!

    Turkey just accepted 20,000 Syrians fleeing their war ravaged country without any fuss – but a boat with 100 people coming here has Rupert Murdoch and his puppets in government screaming the world will end!

    I won’t be watching it – I can’t afford a new TV after I destroyed mine today while watching Peter Reith spew hate and evil on The Drum today!

  7. Reuder 7 – I don’t think this panel is very representative of Australian society.

    Shouldn’t it be 6 in favour of stopping the boats and keeping these potential terrorists and children drowners out of Australia vs 1 hippy communist leftwinger who is doped up on hash?

    Can you imagine if it wasn’t for Tampa and Peter Reith’s “children overboard” lies – we would have seen the end of PM Howard in 2001 and not 2007!

    BTW – anyone tune in to The Drum today. Peter Reith prattled on about how one could never trust Julia or the entire ALP yet he himself conducted one of the biggest lies in Australian history – “children overboard”!!!

    The Tampa affair was a shameful day in Australian history and the people responsible for it have shown absolutely no remorse and are in fact quite proud of their lies and their blatant racism!

    In fact Tony Abbort thinks what Reith and Howard did was so clever that he used the same tactics to almost win the 2010 election And combined with the fear campaign re the carbon price – is in a commanding position to win government in a landslide if it were held now!

    2001 – Howard won an election he shouldn’t have thanks to Tampa and children overboard.

    2011 – Abbort would win an election held now – thanks to “stop the boats” and a carbon tax noone know the details of!

    Gillard is a disappointment but the lovechild of Trump and Palin would destroy this once great country of ours!

  13. Good balanced panel – 5 people in favour of increasing our refugee intake versus 2 people against increasing our refugee intake.

    Very representative of Australian society.

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