Mamamia Live on Sky News: watch it here

After hours (read: days) of preparation, we’re kicking off the first show.

Mia joins Jessica Rudd, Sue Cato and Angus Fontaine (their bios are at the end of this post) for an hour of chat covering a range of subjects. It’s just like this site. It’s newsy and it’s chatty. And we want to know what you think.

As the topics are discussed on air, we’ll add a quick summary of what’s going live just below. It’ll be updated live as we move from one talking point to the next. By the end of the show you’ll have a complete wrap of what the team spoke about, but feel free to add your comments as the show rolls on and you can bet the team will be reading them.

The Royal Wedding and the Republican Movement

We discuss the latest polls that show support for a Republic Australia is at a 17-year-low…but is it because of the Royal Wedding?

Kevin Rudd, leadership and being Prime Minister again.
Will he, won’t he? And how does Jess deal with all of the speculation?

Detention Centres, asylum seekers
Is there a better way to deal with this issue? The protests in Villawood are unacceptable…but why have these desperate people been pushed down this path? What can change?

Does parenthood really make you happy?
They keep asking Kylie Minogue about having a baby. She says she doesn’t know if she can. Why do they ask? Because there is an assumption that parenthood completes a woman, but research has shown it can lead to a decrease in happiness.

Pregnancy, work and what the boss really thinks.
Kerry Packer supposedly wasn’t happy about Ita Buttrose’s pregnancy when she was editor of Cleo. But is any modern boss, really, any happier? What this means for women.

ANZAC Day
Why it’s so important, and where to from here? ADFA, scandals and women on the frontline.

The Big Brother Awards
They’re the awards handed out by the world’s privacy watchdog, the Privacy Foundation, to companies, organisations and people who commit the worst offences against our privacy. Who’s the worst offender?

Celebrity Redemption
When a life goes completely and publicly off the rails, what does the path to redemption look like? It’s many and varied…but not all of the ‘sinners’ make the right moves when they’re looking for forgiveness.

Here are the  guests for the first show:

JESSICA RUDD: Jessica, 26, is a Canberra-born, Brisbane-raised ex-lawyer, ex-campaign worker and ex-PR consultant who lives with her husband in Beijing. She has written the occasional column, a host of legal letters, countless press releases and one novel, the best-selling Campaign Ruby. She is currently putting the finishing touches on her second novel

ANGUS FONTAINE: Sydney-born Angus Fontaine has been a journalist for the Daily Telegraph, an editor of GQ Australia, an award-winning feature writer and the host of Discovery’s Five Star Insider. He brought global entertainment bible Time Out to Australia in 2007 and is currently Publisher of Time Out Australia.

SUE CATO: Sue has been a leader in corporate communications and issues management for over 20 years.  She established Cato Counsel in early 2003 and has since built a team of communications experts from the fields of politics, the media and business.  She has worked with most of Australia’s leading companies. She is a committee member for Chief Executive Women, an organisation dedicated to greater representation of women at senior levels of Australian business, Art Month, a festival that celebrates the Sydney arts scene and is also on the board of the Melbourne Art Foundation. Sue is the Chairman of The Counsel Group and appears regularly on ABC’s Q&A, The Drum and ABC 702.

Mamamia Live on Sky – Episode 1 (segment one)

Mamamia Live on Sky – Episode 1 (segment two)

Mamamia Live on Sky – Episode 1 (segment three)