Stan Grant will host Thursday night's episode to be filmed at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, which will also feature Wollongong Lord Mayor Gordon Bradbery, Liberal MP Tim Wilson, Lisa Jackson Pulber of the University of Sydney, and the national chair of CEDA Diane Smith-Gander.

Topics they'll cover this week include the latest COVID-19 outbreak in Victoria, challenges facing universities, whether the ALP can reinvent itself following the resignation of Opposition Leader Jodi Mackay, and how people moving out of capital cities is affecting regional and rural communities.

People over the age of 16 can register to be part of the studio audience by sumbitting a question to the panel via the ABC's website.

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