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For all you digital natives, Q&amp;A streamed live on Thursday 8 May. The set may have been under construction and a cheeky sign where the Q&amp;A logo should have been but the night went off well.

Q&A Pilot

The Q&amp;A season kicked off on May 22nd with the man in the top job. Kevin Rudd was in the hot seat with our sharp and always on-the-pulse audience including our SMS and online community.

The Rudd Files

Tony Abbott and Tanya Plibersek are back in the boxing ring for Q&amp;A's second episode. Joining them are Bob Brown, Warren Mundine and Louise Adler for their first grilling by the Q&amp;A punters.

Tony, Tanya and Bob.

The headliners for June 5 were Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Tony Burke, author and lawyer Randa Abdel-Fattah, founder of Crikey Stephen Mayne and, The Australian newspaper's foreign editor Greg Sheridan.

Round Three

The headliners for 12 June, 2008 were the Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon, Senator George Brandis, associate professor Kate Crawford, Liberal MP Pru Goward and the Chaser's Charles Firth.

Boom shake shake shake the room!

Freshly back in Australia, former leader of the Australian Democrats Cheryl Kernot joined Assistant Treasurer Chris Bowen, Shadow Minister for Justice Christopher Pyne, Ashfield Liberal council member Nick Adams, and, television presenter, radio host and comedian Julia Zemiro.

Cheryl returns

The Young Guns…Two rising stars from the federal parliament, Labor's Bill Shorten and the Liberals' Greg Hunt, joined the Q&amp;A panel this week. Find out how the new generation from each side of the political divide approached the issues of the day.

The Young Guns

This episode of Q&amp;A saw the Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon and her shadow Joe Hockey go head to head. Joining them were leading Indigenous scholar, Marcia Langton, writer and Assoc.

Politics and the Academy

Environmental apocalypse now or never? Green’s Senator Christine Milne was up against Herald Sun columnist and climate change sceptic Andrew Bolt, with Minister for Small Business Craig Emerson, former Communications Minister Helen Coonan, and author, essayist and playwright Linda Jaivin holding the casting votes.

It's not easy being Green

This week's panel were: well traveled former Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander Downer, Minister for Finance, Lindsay Tanner, author, journalist and critic of the Howard government, David Marr, columnist, Angela Shanahan and rising star of Young Labor, Rose Jackson.

It takes all types of people to make the world go round...

With the Independent Senator, Nick Xenophon, the National’s Senator Barnaby Joyce and Labor Senator, Mark Arbib, on Q&amp;A this week, we only have one thing to say... welcome the Senate. Joining them were journalist and author of "Inside Kevin 07", Christine Jackman, and Chief Executive of the Australian Industry Group, Heather Ridout.

Welcome the Senate

Joining Q&amp;A this week were: the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, Shadow Treasurer, Malcolm Turnbull, scientist and global warming activist, Tim Flannery, businesswoman, Catherine Harris and the Director of the IP and Free Trade Unit at the Institute of Public Affairs, Tim Wilson.

Money and Trees - the green stuff

This week’s Q&amp;A had something for everyone: Peter Garrett, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts went head to head with the Shadow Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Bronwyn Bishop. Joining them were the Chaser’s Julian Morrow, the Director of the Indigenous Law Centre at UNSW, Megan Davis and a columnist for the Australian, Imre Salusinszky.

Something for Everyone

On Q&amp;A this week the writers dominated. The show featured author and academic, Germaine Greer, former NSW premier and author of My Reading Life, Bob Carr, deputy opposition leader Julie Bishop, The Australian newspaper's foreign editor, Greg Sheridan and curator and critic, Marcus Westbury.

Writing Politics

On Q&amp;A, star graduate of the NSW Labor Left Faction, master strategist and now Minister for Infrastructure, Anthony Albanese and former barrister and current Shadow Attorney General, George Brandis were joined by Blanche D’Alpuget, biographer and wife of former PM, Bob Hawke. They were mixing it up with doctor and author, Cindy Pan and former chief of staff to John Howard, Grahame Morris.

All’s fair in love and politics

Another exciting episode of Q&amp;A with author and journalist John Pilger on the program, he was joined by Minister for Small Business, Craig Emerson, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Sharman Stone, Political Editor for the Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Hartcher and Opinion Editor for The Australian, Rebecca Weisser.

Q&A Episode 15 - No catchy title, just a great panel

Episode 16 of Q&amp;A features a stellar panel. Labor's rising star and Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children's Services, Bill Shorten is joined by Shadow Minister for Justice, Christopher Pyne, former leader of the NSW Liberals, Kerry Chikarovski, Crikey.com.au publisher, Eric Beecher and advertising guru from the Gruen Transfer, Jane Caro.

Sweet 16 - episodes that is...

Taking the stage this week are: Shadow Minister for Defence and leader of the opposition in the Senate, Nick Minchin, the Minister for Housing and Status of Women, Tanya Plibersek, political journalist and author of "Poll Dancing" - a satirical look at the 2007 federal election, Mungo MacCallum, the Director of the IP and Free Trade Unit at the Institute of Public Affairs, Tim Wilson and author, essayist and playwright Linda Jaivin.

So many questions, so little time...

Q&amp;A feeds your brain this week with a great assortment of guests. Rhodes Scholar with an Oxford Blue in boxing and one of the better performers in the House, Shadow Minister for Families and Indigenous Affairs, Tony Abbott makes a welcome return to the program.

Who needs sandwiches when you have Q&A providing food for thought?

The Parliamentary Liberal Party has chosen a new leader. As Tony Abbott said in a Q&amp;A program, "...the king is dead, long live the king."

A penultimate treat from Q&A

Q&amp;A wrapped its debut season with a cracking line up to take your questions. Audiences tuned in to see Australia's longest serving Treasurer and soon-to-be civilian, Peter Costello, Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon, former leader of the Australian Democrats, then a Labor MP and now an academic, Cheryl Kernot, author and journalist, David Marr and former editor of the Op-Ed page of The Australian and a former Liberal adviser, Tom Switzer give us a closing show to remember.

Goodnight and good luck...

Q&A returns with Australians of the Year!!!

An Economic Time...

A Classic Q&A

TANNER and COSTELLO on Q and A

A Mixed Bunch

Religion, Sex and Politics

Q and A live from Melbourne

Tony Jones's guests this week include Senator George Brandis and Young Liberal Party member Rachel Fry.

Chinese Puzzles

Banks, Bikies and Broadband

The John Elliot Show

P.J. O'Rourke on Q and A

Green and everything in between

Taxes, Torture and the Taliban

Budget Special from Canberra

Beyond Spin

And That's Half-Time

Back in Town

Queensland Rising

The Youth Show

The more things change...

Back to Balibo

Live from the Melbourne Writers Festival

Sex and Politics

Women, War, Sex and Kevin Rudd

The History Wars

Q&A Live from Adelaide

God, Sodomy and the Lash

Hey Hey It's Racism

Alexei Sayle joins Q and A

John Elliott Returns

The Indonesian Non-Solution

That's A Wrap

Q&A made a triumphant return for 2010 with a special program from Old Parliament House in Canberra featuring Kevin Rudd and an audience of 200 young Australians aged 16-25. Program producers were inundated with hundreds of excellent questions from this group.

The PM on Q and A

Tanner and Joyce Go Head to Head

Turnbull Returns

Art, Power and Passion

God, Science and Sanity

Conservatives, Comedians and Political Correctness

The Health of the Nation

Greens, budgies and staffers...

Tony Abbott on Q and A

The American Ambassador on Q&A

Premiers, Population and the Politics of Fear

Anzac Day Special

Emissions Trading, Taxation and Trust

Censorship in Cyberspace

Budget special

Democracy, Death and Taxes

Backlash in Bennelong?

Q and A Goes West

For Lovers of Animals

Greens in the Spotlight

The Gillard Coup

Panellists: Tony Burke, Minister for Sustainable Population; George Brandis, shadow attorney-general; Annabel Crabb, journalist and commentator; Cheryl Kernot, former Labor MP and Leader of the Australian Democrats; and Grahame Morris, political commentator and former Liberal staffer.

New PM & Population

Fear, Loathing and the East Timor Solution

And They're Off!

Where's the Passion?

Q and A Goes to Brisbane

Julia Gillard joins Q and A

Q and A Population Debate Special Dick Smith's Population Puzzle

Tony Abbott joins Q and A

Where's Mark Arbib?

Q and A at the Melbourne Writers Festival

Bob Katter joins Q&A

A new political paradigm

Euthanasia in a hung parliament

Politics, Betrayal and Sex

Q and A Gets Dangerous

Q and A Sports Special

Miracles, Media and the Murray

The Odd Angry Shoe: John Howard on Q and A

Q and A goes West

Panellists: Bill Shorten, Assistant Treasurer; George Brandis, shadow attorney-general; Randa Abdel Fattah, author and lawyer; Janet Albrechtsen, conservative commentator; and Jonathan Biggins, satirist and performer.

That's Goodbye From Us...

Don's Party Revisited

Revolution, Revelations and Romance

The Carbon Curse

The Gender Divide

Julia Gillard Meets the People

Hosted by Hamish Macdonald, Q&A puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. It's about democracy in action - the audience gets to ask the questions.

The Best Seasons of Q&A

The Best Seasons of Q&A

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Season 1

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Season 3

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Season 6

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