Q and A

The impact of Victoria's state of disaster: Will businesses survive and what powers do police and state government have? How will border closures impact the nation? How do we look after our mental and emotional wellbeing? Panellists: Tim Wilson, Victorian Liberal MP; Kimberley Kitching, Victorian Labor senator; Dinesh Palipana, emergency doctor and disability advocate; Michele O'Neil, ACTU president; and Paul Waterson, CEO, Australian Venue Co. Also joining the program: Killian Ashe, psychiatrist, Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Hamish Macdonald is joined by a panel of frontline workers and medical experts leading the fight against coronavirus COVID-19. What are the lessons learned so far? Were we too complacent? How are hospitals and frontline staff holding up? Panellists: Kerryn Phelps, City of Sydney councillor and former AMA president; Lucy Morgan, respiratory physician, Nepean Hospital; Vyom Sharma, general practitioner; and Abbey Fistrovic, clinical nurse specialist. With a live cross to: Andrew Laming, Liberal Member for Bowman; and Ged Kearney, shadow assistant minister for aged care.

The pandemic has already taken a terrible economic toll and the recovery will take longer than predicted. Who will benefit and who will lose out from reduced subsidies? Will it be enough to keep our hardest-hit sectors going? Panellists: Bill Bowtell, UNSW adjunct professor and strategic health policy adviser; Gigi Foster, economist, UNSW; George Megalogenis, author and journalist; Cassandra Goldie, CEO of Australian Council of Social Service; Karen Soo, executive officer at the Haymarket Chamber of Commerce; With a live cross to Simon Birmingham, minister for trade, tourism and investment, and Katy Gallagher, shadow minister for finance.