| This Monday night Q+A turns to the ongoing Covid crisis in Victoria, where a state of disaster has been declared.
Melbourne is in stage four lockdown, with an evening curfew and an additional 250,00 employees forced to stay home. Non-essential workplaces, retail and schools are closed, except for “permitted” workers, and Melburnians are restricted to a five-kilometre radius of their home, with few exceptions. It’s designed as a “shock and awe” campaign to drive down community spread of the virus.
And with stage 3 restrictions now in effect across the rest of Victoria, what is the impact on one of our country’s key states? Will businesses survive and what powers does the new state of disaster give police and state government? How will the new border closures between Victoria and other states impact the rest of the country? And how do we deal with people’s mental and emotional wellbeing in the face of such uncertainty?
They’ll join Hamish on the panel live:
Tim Wilson, Victorian Liberal MP
Kimberly Kitching, Victorian Labor Senator
Dinesh Palipana, Emergency doctor and disability advocate
Michelle O’Neil, ACTU President
Paul Waterson, CEO, Australian Venue Co.
Also joining the program:
Killian Ashe, Psychiatrist, Royal Melbourne hospital
Please submit a question via our website by 12pm Monday for the chance to ask the panel.
Watch Q+A Monday 9.35pm on ABC TV, streamed live 9.35pm AEST on ABC iview or on our website. |
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Get to know the panellists |
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 | Dinesh Palipana is Queensland's first quadriplegic doctor, working in the Emergency Department of the Gold Coast University hospital. | Read via ABC NEWS |
|  | As Virgin Australia prepares to axe one-third of its workforce, ACTU President Michele O’Neil says the Federal Government urgently needs to put an aviation industry support plan in place. | Listen via ABC Radio |
|  | Paul Waterson is the chief executive of the Australian Venue Company, which owns 140 venues across Australia including 42 in Victoria. In May, he had hoped that July would see live music and trivia nights return to his venues. | Read via ABC NEWS |
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 | | | | | | | | Clinical Nurse Specialist Abbey Fistrovic wants young Australians to realise the threat of COVID-19 is real and they‘re not "invincible.” She says "this virus does not discriminate.” | | | | | | |
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| | | | | Q+A is taking questions from every corner of Australia. Upload your video to the Q+A website by 12pm Monday for the chance to question the panel. | |
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