Q&A: Apr 20

On Monday Q&A asks “COVID-19: Where to Next?”

Australia now faces some serious questions about the next phase of our battle to contain coronavirus.

Recent data is encouraging – social distancing seems to be working and we’ve avoided the catastrophic start to the epidemic other countries have endured.

Our policy-makers are now looking for an exit strategy that comes with a range of ethical dilemmas. How do we balance the health of the population with the health of the economy? And with unemployment set to hit 10% will the coronavirus force a re-think of the Australian industrial and economic landscape?  

Q+A tackles these big questions with an economist, an epidemiologist, an ethicist, union leader and the man chosen by the Prime Minister to lead the COVID expert advisory panel.

They’ll join Hamish on the panel live:

Neville Power, Executive Chairman, National COVID-19 Coordination Commission
Sally McManus, Secretary, ACTU
Simon Longstaff, Executive Director, The Ethics Centre
Gigi Foster, Economist, UNSW
Jodie McVernon, Epidemiologist, Doherty Institute

9:35pm Monday on ABC (live streaming locally at SA 8.05pm; NT 8.05pm; WA 6.35pm. Q+A is simulcast Live around the country on ABC TV, ABC iview and ABC NEWS on radio.  ABC Australia also broadcasts Q+A in to Asia and the Pacific).