Best of 2016

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This year was filled with inspirational people, controversial moments, tough questions, and quite a few laughs. Q&A will return in February 2017 and we hope you'll be there to ask the questions and join the conversation. In the meantime, check out some of the year's best episodes.

 

    1. Monday 9 May, 2016 Budget, Billionaires and Battlers
      Panellists: Kelly O'Dwyer, Minister for Small Business and Assistant Treasurer; Andrew Leigh, Shadow Assistant Treasurer; Adam Bandt, Greens Member for Melbourne; Cassandra Goldie, Head of Australian Council of Social Service; and Innes Willox, CEO, Australian Industry Group. more >
      Budget, Billionaires and Battlers
    2. Monday 19 September, 2016 Marriage Equality, Migrants and Masculinity
      Panellist: Jimmy Barnes, Rock icon and author; Magda Szubanski, Actress and Comedian; Fiona Nash, Deputy Nationals Leader; Tony Burke, Manager of Opposition Business; and Jacqui Lambie, Independent Senator for Tasmania. more >
      Marriage Equality, Migrants and Masculinity
    3. Monday 14 March, 2016 String Theory, Sea Turtles, AI and Pi
      Panellists: Brian Greene, Physicist and string theorist; Tamara Davis, Astrophysicist; Alan Finkel, Australia's Chief Scientist; Emma Johnston, Marine ecologist and TV host; and Upulie Divisekera, Molecular biologist and science communicator. more >
      String Theory, Sea Turtles, AI and Pi
    4. Monday 5 September, 2016 Over 400 Years of Shakespeare
      Panellist: John Bell, Founding Artistic Director, Bell Shakespeare; Kylie Farmer, Indigenous actor and Shakespeare translator; Germaine Greer, Feminist icon and provocateur; Kate Mulvany, Actor, playwright and screenwriter; and A.C. Grayling, Philosopher. more >
      Over 400 Years of Shakespeare
    5. Monday 15 August, 2016 Experts and Empirical Evidence
      Panellists: Greg Hunt, Minister for Industry, Innovation & Science; Linda Burney, Shadow Minister for Human Services; Brian Cox, Particle Physicist and TV Presenter; Lily Serna, Mathematician and TV Presenter; and Malcolm Roberts, One Nation Senator-elect for Qld. more >
      Experts and Empirical Evidence
    6. Monday 16 May, 2016 Free Will, Free Speech and Criticising Islam
      Panellists: Kate Tempest, Award-winning poet and rapper; Jean-Christophe Rufin, Co-founder, Medecins Sans Frontieres; Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Controversial Somalian feminist and author Heretic; Julian Baggini, Philosopher; and Emma Sky, Former adviser to the US military in Iraq. more >
      Free Will, Free Speech and Criticising Islam
    7. Monday 20 June, 2016 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
      Panellist: Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister of Australia. more >
      Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
    8. Monday 18 July, 2016 Senate Powerbrokers
      Panellist: Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education; Sam Dastyari, Labor Senator for New South Wales; Larissa Waters, Queensland Greens Senator; Nick Xenophon, NXT Senator for South Australia; and Pauline Hanson, Queensland Senator-elect. more >
      Senate Powerbrokers
    9. Monday 6 June, 2016 Tussle in Tamworth
      Panellists: Barnaby Joyce, Deputy Prime Minister; Joel Fitzgibbon, Shadow Minister for Agriculture; Tony Windsor, Former MP and Independent Candidate; Fiona Simson, Vice President of National Farmers' Federation; and Robbie Sefton, Farmer and Businesswoman. more >
      Tussle in Tamworth
    10. Monday 7 March, 2016 Peta, Priests and Presidents
      Panellist: Michaelia Cash, Minister for Employment and Women; Penny Wong, Opposition Leader in the Senate; Alan Jones, Influential Radio Broadcaster; Mia Freedman, Co-founder, Mamamia women's network; and Josh Zepps, New York-Based Media Personality & Broadcaster. more >
      Peta, Priests and Presidents