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Q+A: May 6

Guests: Alan Kohler, Jess Hill & Bri Lee.

Q+A is live from Melbourne this week for discussions around housing affordability, childcare and the government’s big spend.

The episode also features a live performance from Julia Stone.

The government has announced a $1.7b package to cut out-of-pocket costs for parents and encourage more women back into full-time work. The investment is expected to save a quarter of million Australian families thousands of dollars per year, but does it go far enough? Finance journalist Alan Kohler joins the program, in the lead up to the federal budget, as we look at measures to help the economy rebound.

And as Australian states and territories look at legislative changes around coercive control, Investigative journalist Jess Hill will be here to talk through the issues and her new documentary shining a light on domestic violence. Different states are investigating different ways of dealing with the problem and in NSW the Labor opposition is promising a bill to make coercive control a crime with a ten year maximum penalty. But is Australia ready for the change?

Meanwhile Bri Lee joins the panel to share her experience as a lawyer and an advocate survivor of sexual assault.

Alan Kohler, Finance journalist and Editor-in-Chief, The Eureka Report
Jess Hill, Journalist and Author, See What You Made Me Do
Fiona Martin, Liberal Member for Reid
Linda Burney, Shadow Minister for Families and Social Services
Bri Lee, Author, Eggshell Skull and Beauty

Thursday, May 6 at 8.30pm on ABC.

4 Responses

  1. To improve Q+A’s abysmal ratings, I suggest the music act starts at 8.30pm and finishes at 9.35.
    I’m sure Courtney Act could have carried the whole episode herself last week.

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