NaN/100 votes#1 - Elections, Economics & Knightmares
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 2/2/2015
Tony Jones is joined by Former ALP Treasurer, Wayne Swan; Minister for Agriculture, Barnaby Joyce; Greens Senator for Queensland, Larissa Waters; and Independent Senators, John Madigan and Jacqui Lambie.
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#2 - Spills, Bills, Coal & Kills
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 2/9/2015
Tony Jones is joined by broadcaster Alan Jones; Assistant Infrastructure Minister Jamie Briggs; Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen, Chair of AustralianSuper Heather Ridout; and comedian and writer Corrine Grant.
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#3 - Death, Detention and Defending Policies
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 2/16/2015
Panellists Malcolm Turnbull, Minister for Communications; Catherine King, Shadow Health Minister; Lisa Wilkinson, Journalist; Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative; & Greg Sheridan, Foreign Affairs Editor, The Australian.
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#4 - Family Violence Special
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 2/23/2015
Panellists: Aus of the Year, Rosie Batty; Aus Ambassador for Women, Natasha Stott Despoja; Acting VIC Police Commissioner, Tim Cartwright; Indigenous anti-violence campaigner, Charlie King; & Men's Counsellor, Simon Santosha.
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#5 - Economics, Regulations & One Word
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 3/2/2015
Panellists: Star of stage and screen, Miriam Margolyes; Assistant Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg; Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Andrew Leigh; Centre for Independent Studies, Trisha Jha; & Editor In Chief of Mamamia, Jamila Rizvi.
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#6 - Bad Feminism: Contradictions and Careers
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 3/9/2015
To celebrate 40 years of IWD a special Q&A with guest host Annabel Crabb. Annabel Crabb guest hosts Q&A with a panel including Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop; Feminist icon, Germaine Greer; Author, Roxane Gay; CEO of Best & Less, Holly Kramer & Engineer and youth advocate, Yassmin Abdel-Magied.
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#7 - Intergenerational Wealth and Health
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 3/16/2015
An Intergenerational Report special. Joining Tony Jones is Treasurer Joe Hockey; Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen; ACOSS CEO Cassandra Goldie; CEO of Australian Chamber of Commerce Kate Carnell & public policy expert John Daley.
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#8 - When the Bush came to Town
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 3/23/2015
Live from the Royal Easter Show, Tony Jones is joined by National Party Senator Fiona Nash; Shadow Minister for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon; Country musician Troy-Cassar-Daley; Orchardist Robyn Clubb; and cattleman Rob Cook.
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#9 - Depression, Drugs and Another Planet
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 3/30/2015
Host Tony Jones is joined by panellists Education Minister Christopher Pyne; Opposition Senate Leader Penny Wong; Comedian Ruby Wax; Musician and humanitarian Michael Franti & Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Brian Schmidt.
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#10 - Political Tensions and Children in Detention
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 4/6/2015
Greek musical legend Nana Mouskouri joins Tony Jones on the Q&A panel with: Parl Sec to the Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer; Labor Member Ed Husic; Australian Financial Review Editor, Michael Stutchbury; & playwright Van Badham.
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#11 - Vaccinations, Press Freedoms & Forced Closures
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 4/13/2015
Panellists: Journalist Peter Greste; Asst Minister for Social Services Mitch Fifield; Shadow Parl Sec for Regional Development Alannah MacTiernan; CEO Regional Aus Institute Su McCluskey; & NITV News' Malarndirri McCarthy.
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#12 - Drinking, Depression and Deportation
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 4/20/2015
Joining Tony Jones: Journalist Derryn Hinch; Minister for Trade & Investment, Andrew Robb; Former Speaker of the House, Anna Burke; Comedian Dave Hughes; CEO of the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, Jane Burns.
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#13 - ANZAC Spirit, Modern Warfare and Marriage
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 4/27/2015
On the panel this week: Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos; Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; Former deputy PM Tim Fischer; Historian Carolyn Holbrook; & Deputy Program Director, Human Rights Watch Tom Porteous.
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#14 - Assault, Altruism and Emissions
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 5/4/2015
Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Philosopher & ethicist, Peter Singer; Environment Minister, Greg Hunt; Shadow Environment Minister, Mark Butler; Broadcaster & commentator, Amanda Vanstone; & US performer, Adrienne Truscott.
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#15 - Struggle Street on Budget Eve
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 5/11/2015
Panellists: Clive Palmer, Leader of the Palmer United Party; Christian Porter, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister; Nakkiah Lui, Playwright; Jason Clare, Shadow Communications Minister; and Jennifer Hewett, Political journalist.
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#16 - Death Cults, Brains & Migration
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 5/18/2015
On the Q&A panel this week, we feature some of the brightest stars from this year's Sydney Writers' Festival: Norman Doidge; Caitlin Doughty; Douglas Coupland; Mohsin Hamid and Christina Lamb.
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#17 - Joe Hockey on the Tradies vs Ladies Budget
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 5/25/2015
This week Tony Jones is joined by the Treasurer of Australia, Joe Hockey to face a LIVE studio audience & respond directly to their post-budget questions.
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#18 - War Cries, Citizenship & Crime Prevention
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 6/1/2015
Joining Tony Jones LIVE on the panel: Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg; Shadow Minister for Infrastructure Anthony Albanese; Actor and elder Jack Charles; Policy analyst Miriam Lyons; and Businesswoman Judith Sloan.
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#19 - Revolutionary Christianity, Citizenship & Incarceration
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 6/8/2015
Panellists: Christine Forster, City of Sydney Councillor; Dr Cornel West, Scholar and Poet; Philip Ruddock, Special Envoy for Citizenship; Katy Gallagher, Senator for the Australian Capital Territory; and Bates Gill, CEO of US Studies Centre.
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#20 - Magna Carta Magna QandA
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 6/15/2015
Q&A marks the 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta with an episode from Parliament House in Canberra. Joining Tony Jones on the panel are Bronwyn Bishop, Noel Pearson, Gillian Triggs, Luca Belgiorno-Nettis & Bret Walker.
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#21 - Terror, Poverty & Native Titles
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 6/22/2015
Panellists: singer ANOHNI Hegarty; Parl. Sec for Foreign Affairs Steve Ciobo; Shad Min. for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon; lobbyist Grahame Morris; Advertising director Dee Madigan; & anti-poverty campaigner Linda Tirado.
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#22 - Radicalisation, Religion & Recognition
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 6/29/2015
Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Dep Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek; Editor-at-large The Australian Paul Kelly; Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss; Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson; counter-terrorism expert Dr. Anne Aly.
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#23 - Greece, Gags & Grazing Land
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 7/6/2015
On the panel: Vrasidas Karalis, Professor of Modern Greek; Shadow Minister for Immigration Richard Marles; Greens Senator Larissa Waters; policy analyst Trisha Jha & foreign affairs editor Greg Sheridan.
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#24 - Peace, Ideology & Free Speech
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 7/13/2015
On the panel: Former Liberal leader John Hewson, Shadow Assistant Minister for Education Amanda Rishworth, war correspondent Michael Ware, scholar John Stackhouse, and Director of Polling at the Lowy Institute Alex Oliver.
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#25 - Choppers, Coal & Community
Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 7/20/2015
Joining Tony Jones on the panel: Former Deputy PM, Tim Fischer; Broadcaster, Alan Jones; Senator, Jacqui Lambie; Shadow Environment Minister, Mark Butler & Mining and development strategist Katherine Teh-White.
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Season 8 Ratings Summary
"Elections, Economics & Knightmares" is the best rated episode of "Q&A" season 8. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/2/2015. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Spills, Bills, Coal & Kills".