In 1997 the project became a monthly national forum for senior secondary school students, broadcast on ABCyouth network Triple J produced by Stephen Cutting who had taken up a secondment to ABC Radio.
Talkback Classroom ran as a regular segment featuring interviews recorded by student interviewers with leading political figures in Australian politics and other decision makers until 2001 when the segment became a live forum based at the National Museum of Australia and shifted to Radio National as part of the Life Matters program and ABC's digital network Fly TV.
[3] In 2007 students from Korea visited Australia to join two Australian to undertake an investigation into issues pertaining to the theme of Energy.
The student investigation and subsequent interview with Downer was the subject of a one-hour documentary broadcast on Korean television network EBS.
The Australia Japan forum represented the first Talkback Classroom Learning Journey to take students to both countries as they investigated Australia/Japan relations.