| Australia now faces some serious questions about the next phase of our battle to contain coronavirus.
Recent data is encouraging – social distancing seems to be working and we’ve avoided the catastrophic start to the epidemic other countries have endured.
With the curve now flattening, we can either lockdown until there is a vaccine or continue living in partial lockdown for 12 months or more, with the subsequent social and economic damage to our economy and society.
Q+A tackles these big questions with an economist, an epidemiologist, an ethicist, union leader and the man handpicked by the Prime Minister to lead the COVID expert advisory panel.
They’ll join Hamish on the panel live:
Neville Power, Executive Chairman, National COVID-19 Coordination Commission
Sally McManus, Secretary, ACTU
Simon Longstaff, Executive Director, The Ethics Centre
Gigi Foster, Economist, UNSW
Jodie McVernon, Epidemiologist, Doherty Institute
Please submit a question via our website by 12pm Monday for the chance to ask the panel live via Skype.
Watch Q+A Monday 9.35pm on ABC TV, streamed live on ABC iview or on our website. |
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Get to know the panellists |
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 | Nev Power will chair the Prime Minister's new COVID-19 Coordination Commission, which will advise the government on all non-health related matters related to the crisis. | Listen via RN |
|  | Sally McManus worked through negotiations with Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter to devise the JobKeeper payment that Federal Parliament approved last week | Read via ABC NEWS |
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 | Professor Gigi Foster says we must aggressively quarantine and protect vulnerable people - then go for a beer afterwards so the publican can pay his workers. | Listen via RN |
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 | | | Surviving Lockdown | | | | Australians are living in COVID-induced isolation. Matt Preston, Craig Foster, Julie McCrossin, John Anderson and Christine Morgan answer your questions about surviving home schooling the kids, working from home and living on top of each other. | | | | | | |
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 | | | Seeking Asylum During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Q+A | | | | How should the Australian government address the plight of 1,400 asylum seekers at high-risk of COVID-19 infection currently being held in immigration detention centres? John Anderson AO and Craig Foster discuss. | | | | | | |
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If you can't make it, ask your question via Skype | | | | We want questions from every corner of Australia. Get in touch by 12pm Monday for the chance to question the panel live via Skype. | |
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