ABC's political talk show Q+A will be broadcast live from Queanbeyan on Monday night.
The show, hosted by Patricia Karvelas, will be broadcast in front of a live audience from Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre aka The Q.
It's a location tailor-made for political discussion, just a short drive from Parliament House in the battleground seat of Eden-Monaro. The show goes to air at 9.35pm on Monday.
Joining Patricia Karvelas on the panel will be:
- Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel-prize winning economist and public policy professor;
- Michael Stutchbury, outgoing Australian Financial Review editor-in-chief;
- Bill Shorten, Minister for NDIS and Government Services;
- Jane Hume, opposition spokeswoman for finance and the public service;
- Jacqui Lambie, independent senator for Tasmania.
Karvelas is no stranger to the national capital, working for almost 10 years in the Parliament House press gallery.
"I am so excited to start the next season of qanda live in Queanbeyan, which is a hop, skip and a jump from a place I love so much - Canberra," she said.
"I spent close to a decade in Canberra and in that time I was always struck by how misunderstood it is - how the public impression isn't the same as the people I would meet and connect with."
The show puts the punter in charge, directing questions to the panel from the audience or at home.
Likely to be on the agenda will be questions about the cost of living crisis, interest rates, airline competition and, even, Australia's success at the Paris Olympics.
You can register to be part of the Q+A audience:www.abc.net.au/qanda/studio-audience
Or submit a question here: www.abc.net.au/qanda/ask-a-question
It means Canberra really is the centre of the universe this weekend for political discourse.
The ABC's other big political show, Insiders, moved from Melbourne to Canberra last year after broadcasting from the Victoria capital for 21 years.
It is filmed on Sunday morning at the ABC's Northbourne Avenue studios.
