Q+A: May 22

Q+A is live from Melbourne on Monday with “the Class of 22.”

One year on from the election that changed Australia’s political landscape, five first-term parliamentarians join the panel. So just how different is the reality of a political career to what they imagined?

With an economy under pressure amid fears of a global recession, a worsening housing crisis and the approaching winter putting more strain on energy supplies – how much impact can one politician have on the problems Australians are facing?

The Senate is proving pivotal to the government’s legislative agenda, and independents Tammy Tyrell and David Pocock have been making their presence felt. From securing commitments on social housing to putting more scrutiny on economic inclusion, these first-time senators are fighting for the issues they’re passionate about.

In the lower house, Max Chandler-Mather was swept in on Brisbane’s Green wave. A renter throughout his adult life, he has made housing his priority, but is his party’s refusal to pass the housing future fund bill helping or hurting the very people living through housing stress?

Labor’s Michelle Ananda-Rajah – who turned one of Melbourne’s premier blue-ribbon seats red – hasn’t been shy about putting her views forward, including calling for an increase in JobSeeker. And Zoe McKenzie held off a Teal challenge in her Liberal Victorian seat – so what does she make of the Coaliton’s post-election woes?

What does the Class of 22 make of being inside the “Canberra bubble”?

Panellists:
Labor Member for Higgins Michelle Ananda-Rajah,
Liberal Member for Flinders Zoe McKenzie,
Independent Senator for ACT, David Pocock ,
Independent Senator for Tasmania Tammy Tyrrell
and Greens Member for Griffith Max Chandler-Mather

9:35pm Monday on ABC.