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No one was falling asleep during this week's Q&A.
From heckling protesters to swearing comedians, the ABC show's panel and audience got quite rowdy at times.
Anti Trans-Pacific Partnership protesters yelled at host Tony Jones multiple times for not taking a question on the subject.
The acoustics at the Melbourne Recital Centre, where it was broadcast from, were such that at one stage one of the protesters was audible despite not wearing a mic.
"The show is nearly over and we haven't talked about the TPP," she yelled.
To that former speaker Anna Burke, who was on the show last year when university protesters interrupted, quipped: "What is it about me and this program?"
Jones told the protester the show wasn't nearly over.
"We have a question about that if you just hold your horses," he said.
However, the question never came, much to the anger of those on Twitter.
Guest Trade Minister Andrew Robb has received wide criticism, including from within his own party, for conducting the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks in secret.
WACA crew post-#qanda undemocracy fun. We will continue to speak out about the #TPP, though they try to silence us. pic.twitter.com/Shw14ecXtx— WACA (@akaWACA) April 20, 2015
BREAKING: activists opposing the loss of sovereign rights under Robb's #tpp protesting within #qanda audience. pic.twitter.com/BX4vYI3V3L— Comrade Badham (@vanbadham) April 20, 2015
The audience sounds fed up with the lack of questions about the Trans-Pacific Partnership #TPP #TPP tonight on #qanda @qanda.— Matthew Rimmer (@DrRimmer) April 20, 2015
Jones was not the only one on the receiving end.
When a discussion about Prime Minister Tony Abbott's controversial beer skol turned to teen binge drinking, comedian Dave Hughes called broadcaster Derryn Hinch a "wanker".
"I drank because I loved the taste of wine," Hinch said.
"That's because you're a wanker," Hughes retorted.
"It takes one to know one," was Hinch's reply.
But, not all the conversation on the subject was volatile.
Hughes revealed he quit drinking and smoking cannabis at age 22 after suffering from depression.
"I don't drink at all. I think the toughest man at the pub is surrounded by a group of drinkers and says, 'no, I'll be right'," he said.
Mr Robb also discussed his long-term struggles with depression.
He explained how music, art, swimming and medication helped him to overcome it.
Jones later grilled Mr Robb on Health Minister Susan Ley's rejection of the National Mental Health Commission's key recommendation to shift future hospital funding to community-based care.
Mr Robb responded that it would have been a "knee-jerk reaction" to act immediately on the review's findings.
"These things need consent and co-operation and commitment from every area in the government," he said.
Mental health advocate Jane Burns said the review was a "blueprint for action".
"It has solutions that we can act on now if we show strong leadership," she said.
"Mental illness is not a lifestyle choice, it's an illness and we need to start thinking really seriously about how we can put in place prevention and promotion and focus on wellbeing."