This week Q+A will look at all of the big issues including housing affordability, childcare and the government’s big spend.
The government has announced a $1.7b package to cut out-of-pocket costs for parents and encourage more women back into full-time work.
The investment is expected to save a quarter of million Australian families thousands of dollars per year, but does it go far enough? Finance journalist Alan Kohler joins the program, in the lead up to the federal budget, as we look at measures to help the economy rebound.
And as Australian states and territories look at legislative changes around coercive control, Investigative journalist Jess Hill will be here to talk through the issues and her new documentary shining a light on domestic violence.
Different states are investigating different ways of dealing with the problem and in NSW the Labor opposition is promising a bill to make coercive control a crime with a ten year maximum penalty. But is Australia ready for the change?
Meanwhile Bri Lee joins the panel to share her experience as a lawyer and an advocate survivor of sexual assault.
Joining Hamish on the panel:
Alan Kohler
Finance journalist and Editor-in-Chief, The Eureka Report
Alan Kohler has been at the ABC for 21 years, and has been a financial journalist for 46 years.
Jess Hill
Journalist and Author, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse
Jess Hill is an investigative journalist who has been writing and researching about domestic abuse since 2014.
Fiona Martin
Liberal Member for Reid
At the 2019 Federal Election, Fiona Martin was elected as the first female Member for Reid. Prior to entering Parliament, Fiona worked as a psychologist, academic researcher and small businesswoman.
Linda Burney
Shadow Minister for Families and Social Services
Linda Burney was elected federal member for Barton in 2016, following a 13 year career in the NSW Parliament as Member for Canterbury.
Bri Lee
Author, Eggshell Skull and Beauty
Bri Lee is a freelance writer, and author of three books – Eggshell Skull (2018) Beauty (2019), and Who Gets to be Smart, which will be out in June 2021.