Season 4: 2010
The fourth season of Q&A began on 8 February 2010, and will be a full season consisting of 40 episodes on the new night, Monday, on ABC1. Episode 1 was broadcast from Old Parliament House, Canberra, with an audience of 16 to 25 year olds. Episode 4 was broadcast from the Adelaide Festival of Arts, and had a total of 6 panellists making it the largest panel in the program's history. The following episode also had 6 panellists.
Episode 9 featured Opposition Leader Tony Abbott as the only panellist. Episode 12 was a 'politician-free' episode, where no current or former politicians were on the panel. Also in episode 12, a Twitter feed was introduced, where selected tweets discussing Q&A are shown on screen. Episode 18 featured six panellists and was broadcast from Casula in south west Sydney. On episode 24, Tanya Plibersek became the first panelist to appear in on Q&A more than twice in one season, and would go on to appear a fourth time this season.
Episode 27 and 28 each featured the two leaders alone on the panel, in the final two episodes before the election. Episode 29 was the first episode following the election, and was controversial in that at the last minute Julia Gillard pulled Mark Arbib from appearing on the panel, and an empty chair was left on the panel for the entire episode. Episode 30 was broadcast from the Melbourne Writers Festival.
Episode 37 featured former Prime Minister John Howard as the only panellist, co-inciding with the launch of his memoirs. Episode 38 was the first time the program was broadcast from Western Australia in Perth.
Nick Minchin was originally supposed to be the Coalition panellist on the season finale, but bad weather prohibited his plane from landing in Sydney on time. Minchin was replaced on the panel by George Brandis.
| Episode | Date | Panellists | ||
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| Labor | Coalition | Others | ||
| 1 | 8 February 2010 | Kevin Rudd | ||
| 2 | 15 February 2010 | Lindsay Tanner | Barnaby Joyce | Satyajit Das Melinda Tankard Reist Rebecca Huntley |
| 3 | 22 February 2010 | Tanya Plibersek | Malcolm Turnbull | Mungo MacCallum John Roskam Jane Caro |
| 4 | 1 March 2010 | Peter Garrett | Christopher Pyne | Eddie Perfect Paul Grabowsky Jin Xing Rhoda Roberts |
| 5 | 8 March 2010 | Tony Burke | Julie Bishop | Patrick McGorry Richard Dawkins Steve Fielding Jacqueline Ninio |
| 6 | 15 March 2010 | Bill Shorten | Peter Dutton | Miranda Devine Catherine Deveny Waleed Aly |
| 7 | 22 March 2010 | Nicola Roxon | Greg Hunt | John Doyle Valerie Amos Tim Wilson |
| 8 | 29 March 2010 | Craig Emerson Graham Richardson |
Kelly O'Dwyer | Nick McKim Sue Cato |
| 9 | 5 April 2010 | Tony Abbott | ||
| 10 | 12 April 2010 | Tanya Plibersek | Joe Hockey | Jeff Bleich Lucy Turnbull Greg Sheridan |
| 11 | 19 April 2010 | Bob Carr | Scott Morrison | Heather Ridout Simon Sheikh Shimrit Nothman |
| 12 | 26 April 2010 | Germaine Greer Peter Cosgrove Peter FitzSimons Henry Reynolds Alison Creagh |
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| 13 | 3 May 2010 | Penny Wong | Nick Minchin | John Symond Christine Milne Paul Howes |
| 14 | 10 May 2010 | Brendan O'Connor | Sophie Mirabella | Kaiser Kuo Helen Razer Brett Solomon |
| 15 | 17 May 2010 | Lindsay Tanner | Joe Hockey | |
| 16 | 24 May 2010 | Malcolm Fraser Peter Carey Lionel Shriver John Ralston Saul Marcia Langton |
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| 17 | 31 May 2010 | Maxine McKew | Cory Bernardi | Miriam Lyons Clare Bowditch Mitchell Grady |
| 18 | 7 June 2010 | Chris Bowen | Scott Morrison Pru Goward |
Kevin Sheedy Samah Hadid Heath Ducker |
| 19 | 14 June 2010 | Peter Garrett | Helen Coonan | David Marr Peter Singer Jayashri Kulkarni |
| 20 | 21 June 2010 | Craig Emerson Graham Richardson |
Malcolm Turnbull | Sarah Hanson-Young Jessica Brown |
| 21 | 28 June 2010 | Bill Shorten | Barnaby Joyce | Magda Szubanski Harold Mitchell Janet Albrechtsen Christine Wallace |
| 22 | 5 July 2010 | Tony Burke | George Brandis | Annabel Crabb Cheryl Kernot Grahame Morris |
| 23 | 12 July 2010 | Chris Evans | Christopher Pyne | John Elliott Scott Ludlam Felicity Hampel Lenore Taylor |
| 24 | 19 July 2010 | Tanya Plibersek | Julie Bishop | Piers Akerman Waleed Aly Bruce Hawker |
| 25 | 26 July 2010 | Penny Wong Graham Richardson |
Malcolm Turnbull | Christine Milne Tom Switzer |
| 26 | 2 August 2010 | Craig Emerson | Peter Dutton Barnaby Joyce |
Madonna King Larissa Waters |
| 27 | 9 August 2010 | Julia Gillard | ||
| 28 | 16 August 2010 | Tony Abbott | ||
| 29 | 23 August 2010 | Graham Richardson |
Malcolm Turnbull | Janet Albrechtsen Sarah Hanson-Young Tony Windsor |
| 30 | 30 August 2010 | Malcolm Fraser Jessica Rudd John Keane Christine Wallace Chris Berg |
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| 31 | 6 September 2010 | Peter Beattie | Nick Minchin | Bob Katter Christine Milne Rebecca Huntley |
| 32 | 13 September 2010 | Tanya Plibersek | Warren Truss | Sarah Hanson-Young Clive Palmer Lenore Taylor |
| 33 | 20 September 2010 | Chris Bowen | Christopher Pyne | Craig Reucassel Helen McCabe Leslie Cannold |
| 34 | 27 September 2010 | Stephen Conroy | Sophie Mirabella | Rob Oakeshott Fiona Patten Mungo MacCallum |
| 35 | 4 October 2010 | Tariq Ali Geoffrey Robertson Lenore Skenazy Ratih Hardjono Paul Kelly |
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| 36 | 11 October 2010 | Mark Arbib | Kelly O'Dwyer | Roy Masters Geoff Lawson Lisa Forrest |
| 37 | 18 October 2010 | Mike Kelly | Greg Hunt | Tim Flannery Jennifer Marohasy Bruce Guthrie Jennifer Hewett |
| 37 | 25 October 2010 | John Howard | ||
| 38 | 1 November 2010 | Stephen Smith | Julie Bishop Colin Barnett |
Rachel Siewert Andrew Forrest Tony Wiltshire |
| 39 | 9 November 2010 | Bill Shorten | George Brandis |
Janet Albrechtsen Jonathan Biggins Randa Abdel-Fattah |
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