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60 Minutes: Mar 10

Liz Hayes interviews Tony Abbott and Michael Usher has spent a week in Iraq.

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tabbHands up who drew the short straw? This Sunday 60 Minutes Liz Hayes interviews Tony Abbott and Michael Usher has spent a week in Iraq.

More recently the show has not been matching its title of being sixty minutes in length, with extended and over-running editions. Hopefully it finishes at 8:30pm this weekend which is what its current schedule indicates, but a ripping episode of Downton Abbey is scheduled for 8:40pm.

For Better or Worse
After 50 years together, you’d think Bill and Gladys Forward had seen-off all life could throw at them. That was until Gladys was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease 8 years ago. Gradually, Bill has come to care for Gladys more and more, and today, he does everything for his wife. But it’s not just what Bill does that’s so inspiring – it’s the way that he does it. Theirs is a remarkable story of love, commitment and a most unusual bicycle.
Reporter: Allison Langdon
Producer: Hannah Boocock

Tony Abbott
We’re still 6 months out from election day, but if the polls are to be believed, Tony Abbott is destined to be elected Australia’s 28th Prime Minister. After coming so close three years ago, the “new Tony” is determined to win this time, and is going to great lengths to convince us he’s a changed man. Even his gay sister is speaking out, to endorse the new and improved Tony Abbott – a 21st Century man who can admit the mistakes of his past. And while blood runs thicker than water it’s still a hard act for her to sell.
Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producer: Lincoln Howes

Iraq Ten Years On
It’s been ten years since we followed America into war with Iraq. It was a war based on a lie – that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction and it cost more than a hundred thousand lives. So was it worth it? Michael Usher has just spent a week in Iraq – asking the locals that question, and what he found was a country still at war. Car bombings, kidnappings, and assassinations are a daily threat. The terrorists are as active as ever. But among it all, are normal families, trying to get on with life and a little boy who gives us hope for the future of Iraq.
Reporter: Michael Usher
Producer: Stephen Rice

7:30pm Sunday on Nine.

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  1. Just hope 60 Minutes give equal time to Julia Gillard. They could bang on about her communistic ideals (eg bringing back death duties) when she was with the Socialist Forum in the mid 1980s and see how relevant her thoughts back then are with her actions now. About as relevant as asking Abbott about anti-gay sentiments made at university. Leave current affairs and good reporting to other Ch9.

  2. Tony Abbott has really changed for the better. He has a heart and soul which is more than I believe can be said for Julia Gillard. She put me out of a public forum because she won’t front any of the hard questions like affordable housing!!

  3. Now I know why I only watch 60 minutes sparingly – it is more about the views and attitudes of the journalist (Liz) than to give viewers as insight into the real person. Tell me Liz has not changed over the past 20 years in her outlooks and perspectives as modern perspectives abound!?!?!? How about a little respect for the person interviewed at least, even if you do not agree with his views and are suspicious of his maturity over time.
    Brave1

  6. Abbott will have agreed to the 60 Minutes interview in the mistaken belief that he’ll be better able to stage manage a pre-recorded and highly edited interview. The standard technique is to stick to preferred catch-phrases and sound bites, and deliver rehearsed answers, regardless of the questions asked. No doubt he’s still stinging from his last live 7.30 interview, in which Leigh Sales effortlessly exposed his ignorance. (It’s on Youtube if you want a good laugh.) He’s also repeatedly declined invitations to appear on Q&A, which surely makes him an amazingly lame and cowardly Opposition Leader. But with an election looming, he won’t be able to dodge the bullets for much longer.

  7. Muscledude_oz, are you kidding? When was the last time you saw your hero, Abbott, on 7:30, Four Corners, Q&A or Insiders? They ask too many basic questions that can’t be answered with his repetitive slogans.

    I bet he thought he was gonna get an easy ride with his good mates at Nine.

  8. I honestly can not believe or expect anything asked by any employee of Nine,( especially K for Karl the bull terrier of the Abbott interviews Ha Ha) will ever put Mr Abbott on the spot, sure they will ask many Dorothy Dix’s, but will also seem to ask “probing” questions.
    But they in fact will be virtually ignored or answered with platitudes not policies, but as per usual the premiss of the question will be immediately deflected, with Mr Abbott using that question to attack Ms Gillard and or Labor in general.

    If he runs true to form, he will probably defer any gay rights questions to his gay sister to sing his praises, before he skill fully evades giving a direct answer.

  9. Watching the news today….Mr Abbott was being interviewed…I did not really get what he was saying…I was distracted by the 4 women behind him bobbing their heads in apparent agreement….guess that was because it is International Womens Day….but it is a trend with all pollies…that I find very off putting and tend to change channels.

  13. Looks like we’re in for a real hatchet job on Abbott. The ads alone have been disgusting. I knew something like this would come after the polls showed that Abbott has overtaken Gillard as preferred PM. Didn’t expect it from 60 Minutes, I would have thought it would be the usual suspects – 7:30, Four Corners, Q&A or Insiders.

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