This week we’ll 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 me on the panel:
 
Alan Kohler, Finance journalist and Editor-in-Chief, The Eureka Report
Jess Hill, Journalist and Author, See What You Made Me Do
Fiona Martin, Liberal Member for Reid
Linda Burney, Shadow Minister for Families and Social Services
Bri Lee, Author, Eggshell Skull and Beauty

Please submit a question via our website by 9am Thursday for the chance to ask the panel. 

Scroll down to watch Thursday's toughest question asked by Farida Alvi, who tragically lost her brother to COVID in India. 👇

Watch Q+A Thursday at 8.30pm on ABC TV, streamed live 8.30pm AEST on ABC iview or on our website.




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