GSSC students enjoy a taste of life on-screen

By Djembe Archibald

Dec 8, 2023

Lights, camera, action: GSSC students outside the ABC building before the live taping of Q&A.

A group of incoming Greater Shepparton Secondary College Year 12 students travelled to Melbourne recently to help form the studio audience for the final Q&A broadcast of 2023.

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The Monday, November 27 panellists were Cheng Lei, who was recently released after three years in a Chinese detention centre and men’s mental health advocate Osher Gunsberg.

Also on screen was the Victorian commissioner for LGBTIQA+ communities, Todd Fernando, former journalist and political adviser Charlotte Mortlock and singer-songwriter Anthony Callea.

Quite on set: Senior students on the set of Q&A.

GSSC student Juna Crozier said the late-night excursion to ABC’s Southbank studios provided an eye-opener into the workings of both television and politics.

“I loved being part of a live audience and experiencing what that’s like,” she said.

“Q&A is a show that I would never have thought to watch, but I’m so glad that I had the opportunity to view it live.”

Maddie Judd found the debate around bias in the media to be most thought-provoking.

“I particularly enjoyed Osher’s stance that we must acknowledge and respect others’ opinions to then consider the whole picture, not just argue senselessly.”

Q&A is national broadcaster ABC’s live weekly news program where politicians and opinion leaders are questioned about current events.