\n\t\t\t\t\tDavid Speers hosts new TV forum on ABC in early March.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
ABC National Forum will screen in early March on ABC.<\/p>\n
Hosted by David Speers in Sydney, it will screen 8:30pm Monday 9 March in the traditional Four Corners slot.<\/p>\n
The forum will bring together ordinary citizens, community leaders, experts and policymakers to discuss topical issues of national significance.<\/p>\n
It follows the demise of Q+A in 2025 and ABC\u2019s vision to introduce new public forum platforms.<\/p>\n
In Senate Estimates this week managing director Hugh Marks said, \u201cIt will be a public square, healthily pluralistic, which aims to elevate discussion on important issues affecting Australia. It is because some conversations can be difficult that as a nation we can\u2019t shy away from discussing them. Drawing on factually accurate information, and being impartial in the focus of exploration, both core tenets of our charter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first forum will focus on the lives of Jewish Australians, including issues arising from the Bondi terrorist attack. I hope if it\u2019s a success there will be more to follow soon. And that also this is not the only new addition to our slate that enables these sorts of discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Speers hosts new TV forum on ABC in early March. ABC National Forum will screen in early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-474424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}