Q+A live from Sydney with Stan Grant (ABC TV Thursday 10 March 2022)

This week on Q+A…

We’ve assembled a powerhouse panel of advocates, trail blazers and voices from the next generation to debate justice, gender and resilience.

Professional women are now the single biggest voting cohort in Australia – how will this shape the upcoming election? This week we saw a group of high-profile Australians launch a campaign to improve the treatment and safety of women at home, and in the workplace.

These big conversations are taking place against a grim backdrop of domestic and international events. The war in Ukraine is escalating and back home, record-breaking floods have left thousands homeless and a massive clean-up effort ahead along the east coast. How are these major events shaping our political discourse and view of the world?

Joining the panel in the lead up to the Sydney Opera House’s All About Women festival are podcaster and entrepreneur Lillian Flex Mami Ahenkan, visionary second wave feminist Wendy McCarthy and refugee advocate Najeeba Wazefadost.

We’ll also be joined by the Founder and Editor of the online magazine Quillette, Claire Lehmann and President of the National Farmers’ Federation, Fiona Simson.

And we’ll bring you a special live music performance from singer Elly-May Barnes, who hails from Australian rock royalty.

Joining Stan Grant live from Sydney:

Lillian Flex Mami Ahenkan

Podcaster and Entrepreneur

Ghanaian-Australian Lillian Ahenkan (aka Flex Mami) is a podcaster and entrepreneur who has released her own furniture line and DJed for Rihanna.

Wendy McCarthy

Educator and businesswoman

Wendy McCarthy has a long track record of advocating, campaigning and fundraising for women’s issues in public life. Her memoir Don’t Be Too Polite, Girls was published this year.

Najeeba Wazefadost

Refugee and gender policy advisor

Najeeba Wazefadost is a former refugee from Afghanistan who has graduated from B. Medical Science. She is the Founder of Global Refugee Network and the Asia Pacific Network of Refugees, and the founding member of GIRL (Global Independent Refugee Women Leaders).

Fiona Simson

President, National Farmers’ Federation

Fiona Simson has been an agricultural industry leader at both a state and federal level since 2008, and believes that agriculture is an industry of the future.

Claire Lehman

Founder and Editor of Quillette

Claire Lehmann is a writer and is the founding editor of Quillette, an online journal dedicated to long form analytical commentary which is edited in Sydney, Toronto and London.

Q+A: Live from Sydney with Stan Grant airs Thursday 10 March at 8.30pm on ABC and iview