Coming Up: Monday April 28, 2025   
Mon 28 Apr 2025 at 9:35pm


Coming Up: Monday April 28, 2025


Stream the show on ABC iview or on Q+A's YouTube channel

All politics is local, the old saying goes. But this federal election, global events have regularly pulled focus. 

Trade wars. Markets volatility. Warnings of global economic downturn. Long-standing security ties challenged. Chinese ships on our doorstep. An American president tearing up democratic norms. Even the death of a Pope – at a pivotal moment for communities of faith.

What sort of world will Anthony Albanese or Peter Dutton inherit? Who’s best to steer us through increasingly stormy seas?

And what does it all mean for your job and your hip pocket? What do you want to hear from political leaders in the dying days of a still-tight election race?

Q+A is broadcasting from Sydney on Monday, April 28 at 9.35pm AEST.



On the Panel   
Tanya Plibersek   

Minister for the Environment & Water

Tanya Plibersek is the Minister for the Environment & Water. Prior to the 2022 election, she has held different roles such as shadow minister for foreign affairs and international development, shadow minister for education and the shadow minister for women.

Paul Fletcher   

Liberal MP for Bradfield

Paul Fletcher is the outgoing Liberal MP for Bradfield and was previously the shadow minister for science, arts, government services and the digital economy until early this year.

Adam Bandt   

Leader of the Australian Greens

Adam Bandt is the leader of the Australian Greens and the federal MP for Melbourne. He was the first Greens MP elected to the House of Representatives at a general election in 2010.

Georgina Downer   

Robert Menzies Institute CEO

Georgina Downer is Chief Executive Officer of the Robert Menzies Institute. She is a former diplomat and qualified lawyer, with a master's degree in public international law from the London School of Economics.

Peter Hartcher   

Political & international editor, The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age

Peter Hartcher is political editor and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He has been writing about politics, economics and international affairs for nearly 40 years, including a decade as a foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Washington.

Thanks for that Bobby, should be some good viewing tonight.  Also Q and A.  One labor, one liberal, and one green.   

I wonder if the Greens and Teal independents will increase their numbers.  Well it looks like they are going to try.  Not just in liberal seats, but in labor seats as well.  Could we be in for a hung parliament?.         

Bobby. wrote Yesterday at 2:57pm:


Budget surpluses (plural), real wage growth while investing in housing, infrastructure, health and education?

So reckless...

'Real wage rises' means nothing when people have a higher number of dollars that buy less...

'Real wage rises' means nothing when it is applied as policy to selected sectors...

HOMING increase in lagging still with more out of the market ...

Immigration is out of control ...

Budgets are only forward estimates using massaged figures - the reality is constant deficits.....

We have been in recession for decades now, with no light ahead....

BS - AUKUS submarines are ship killers - not strategic missile pads.  They are a defensive weapon not an offensive one.  Bandt is talking cock.  The photographs show some with SEAL Delivery Vehicle capability - which is that housing on the deck, so technically they could be used - IF we have those - to deliver small attack forces against an enemy. 

Not much of a part of any Trump assault force'.

Armed forces are the same size now as 1987 - and equipment is superseded, we have fewer ships, and there is little to no strategic planning, morale is low, retention rates are low... this needs a review and ACTION.  Afghanistan has had a very bad effect, you all know why... time to put that behind the nation, and leave the troops alone to get on with their lives.

I outlined last night some of the issues with the colonial SAS here... with officers and how they are chosen and emplaced and trained.  Les Hiddins is a rare species... even 22 SAS has had COs inserted due to 'politics' - and I've said how the operational control naturally devolves to the Other Ranks, hopefully based on merit.... though Bravo Two Zero showed flaws... the Sergeant's Mess holds enormous power for the simple reason that Captains - the lowest commissioned rank - are viewed as essentially raw subalterns, and need to really prove themselves.