NaN/100 votes#1 - Q&A Returns
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 2/6/2012
Joining Tony Jones on the panel are: News Limited columnist and blogger, Joe Hildebrand; Shadow Treasurer, Joe Hockey; economist and businesswoman, Judith Sloan; and founder of the left-wing think tank CPD, Miriam Lyons.
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#2 - Celebrities, Leaders and the Speaker
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 2/13/2012
Panellists: Jenny McAllister, ALP National President; Helen Kroger, Liberal Senator; Mikey Robins, comedian; Robert Manne, writer and academic; and Tim Wilson, Institute of Public Affairs.
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#3 - The Labor Leadership
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 2/20/2012
Panellists: Julie Bishop, Eva Cox, Annabel Crabb, Daniel Hannan.
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#4 - After the Ballot
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 2/27/2012
Panellists: Government Leader in the Senate, Chris Evans; the Nationals' Senator, Barnaby Joyce; former Queensland Premier, Peter Beattie; Deputy Leader of the Greens, Christine Milne; Kevin Rudd's former advisor, Lachlan Harris; and opinion columnist for The Australian, Janet Albrechtsen.
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#5 - Live from Adelaide
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 3/5/2012
Panellists: Amanda Vanstone, former Howard Government Minister; Mark Steyn, conservative commentator and writer; Natasha Stott Despoja, one-time Democrats leader; Jianying Zha, writer and adviser to US President Barack Obama; and Paul Grabowsky, Director, 2012 Adelaide Festival.
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#6 - Katter, Kony and the Climate
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 3/12/2012
Panellists: Health Minister, Tanya Plibersek; Shadow Communications Minister, Malcolm Turnbull; former Farmer of the Year, Michael O'Brien; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda; and Feminist writer and broadcaster, Clementine Ford.
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#7 - Politics and Porn in a Post-Feminist World
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 3/19/2012
Panellists Germaine Greer, celebrated Australian intellectual; Toby Ralph, marketing and political strategist; Benjamin Law, writer and journalist; Christa Hughes, cabaret artist; and Craig Gross, America's contentious porn pastor.
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#8 - The Qld Election
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 3/26/2012
Panellists: Craig Emerson, Trade Minister; George Brandis, Shadow Attorney General; Larissa Waters, Queensland Greens Senator; Grahame Morris, political strategist; Liberty Sanger, labor lawyer.
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#9 - Live from Hobart
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 4/2/2012
Panellists: former Violent Femme, Brian Ritchie, now director of Hobart's MONA Festival of Music and Art; The Minister for Community Services, Julie Collins; Liberal Senate Leader, Eric Abetz; Outspoken Independent and anti-gambling MP, Andrew Wilkie; author and academic, Natasha Cica; and CEO of the Forest Industry Association, Terry Edwards.
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#10 - Religion and Atheism
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 4/9/2012
Panellists: Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell and British atheist, Professor Richard Dawkins.
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#11 - Philosophy and the World
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 4/16/2012
Panellists: Attorney-General, Nicola Roxon; shadow education minister, Christopher Pyne; humanist philosopher, A.C. Grayling; human rights lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson and Middle East analyst, Lydia Khalil.
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#12 - Bob Brown joins Q&A
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 4/23/2012
Panellist: Bob Brown, outgoing leader of the Australian Greens.
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#13 - Q&A Climate Debate
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 4/26/2012
Panellists: Social researcher and writer, Rebecca Huntley; former Liberal Minister, Nick Minchin; founder of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, Anna Rose; mining magnate, Clive Palmer; Chief Executive of the CSIRO, Dr Megan Clark.
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#14 - Live from Dandenong
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 4/30/2012
Panellists: Mark Dreyfus, Cabinet Secretary and local Labor MP; Sophie Mirabella, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry and Science; Victor Victor, Sudanese youth leader; Ged Kearney, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions; Peter Reith, former Howard Government Minister; and Diana Nguyen, actor and comedian.
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#15 - Show Me the Money...
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 5/7/2012
Panellists: Graham Richardson, Labor powerbroker turned commentator; Mark Butler, Minister for Mental Health and Ageing; Kelly O'Dwyer, Liberal MP; Mark Bouris, leading Australian businessman; and Kate Miller-Heidke, singer songwriter.
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#16 - Morals and Politics
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 5/14/2012
Panellists: Penny Wong, Finance Minister; Joe Hockey, Shadow Treasurer; Tim Costello, CEO of World Vision Australia; Judith Sloan, economist and businesswoman; and Stephen Mayne, Crikey founder and shareholder activist.
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#17 - Sydney Writers' Festival
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 5/21/2012
Panellists: Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex, Kathy Lette, Australian author, commentator and self-confessed "demented mother"; Glenn Carle, former CIA interrogator and analyst; Masha Gessen, Russian journalist and Putin biographer; and Greg Sheridan, Foreign Affairs Editor, The Australian.
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#18 - Barry Humphries joins Q&A
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 5/28/2012
Panellists: Barry Humphries, celebrated Australian writer, satirist and actor; Miriam Margolyes, star of Harry Potter and champion of English novelist Charles Dickens; Jacki Weaver, Academy Award nominated actress; David Marr, journalist and commentator; and John Hewson, former leader of the Liberal Party.
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#19 - Live from Toowoomba
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 6/4/2012
Panellists: Simon Crean, Federal Minister for Regional Australia and the Arts; Barnaby Joyce, Queensland Senator and Shadow Federal Minister for Regional Development; Christine Milne, Leader of the Greens; Georgie Somerset, Kingaroy farmer and President of the Queensland Rural Women's Network and Jeremy Marou, Torres Strait Islands musician and grand nephew of Eddie Mabo.
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#20 - Prime Minister Julia Gillard joins Q&A
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 6/11/2012
Panellists: Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard.
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#21 - Life, the Universe and Everything
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 6/18/2012
Joining Tony Jones on the panel are: NSW Minister for Community Services, Pru Goward; English comedian, Lenny Henry; News Limited columnist and blogger, Joe Hildebrand; Age Discrimination Commissioner, Susan Ryan; and academic and writer, Professor Brian Schmidt.
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#22 - The Great Boat Debacle
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 6/25/2012
Panellists: Kate Lundy, Minister for Sport and Multicultural Affairs; Tim Freedman, lead singer of The Whitlams; George Brandis, Shadow Attorney General; Dr John Lee, foreign policy academic and China expert; and Louise Adler, CEO of Melbourne University Publishing.
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#23 - After the Carbon Tax
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 7/2/2012
Panellists: Greg Combet, Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency; Sophie Mirabella, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry and Science; Simon Sheikh, National Director of GetUp; Lenore Taylor, National Affairs Correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald; and Grahame Morris, political strategist.
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#24 - Artistic Politics
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 7/9/2012
Panellists: Chris Bowen, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship; Malcolm Turnbull, Shadow Communications Minister; Nahji Chu, one-time refugee now successful restaurateur; Thierry de Duve, internationally acclaimed art theorist and critic; and Liz Ann Macgregor, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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#25 - Random Violence
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 7/16/2012
Panellists: Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning author; Joel Fitzgibbon, Government Whip; Greg Hunt, Shadow Climate Minister; Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens Senator; Jennifer Hewett, political journalist; and Peter Craven, literary critic.
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The Best Episodes of Q&A Season 5
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Q&A Returns" is the best rated episode of "Q&A" season 5. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/6/2012. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Celebrities, Leaders and the Speaker".