The show is hosted by Waleed Aly, Sarah Harris, Georgie Tunny, Hamish Macdonald, Rove McManus, Sam Taunton and Susie Youssef with rotating daily panellists usually appearing once a week.
The program hosted by Waleed Aly, Sarah Harris, Georgie Tunny, Hamish Macdonald, Rove McManus, Sam Taunton and Susie Youssef and features other regular panellists appearing during the week.
The most frequently occurring presenters currently included: Steve Price, Myf Warhurst, Jan Fran, Nick Cody, Kate Langbroek, Jessie Stephens and Rachel Corbett.
The main content of the show revolves around Aly, Tunny, Macdonald, Harris, McManus, Taunton and Youssef at the desk discussing some of the news events of the day.
In addition, the show features pre-recorded interviews with celebrities, conducted by either one of the main cast or US entertainment correspondents Jonathan Hyla or Xavier Brinkman.
On 8 December 2013, it was announced that regular host Dave Hughes was leaving The Project in order to concentrate on his stand-up comedy routine with a national tour in 2014.
During the first season Ruby Rose and James Mathison were credited as part of the main cast, though their contributions were often limited to guest appearances and pre-recorded interviews.
On 10 March 2011 it was revealed the show scored an exclusive interview with embattled US actor Charlie Sheen to be hosted by Nova personality and 7PM Project regular Scott Dooley.
The show commemorated the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks with a series of stories detailing how people affected by the event have coped over the past 10 years.
It is similar in style to Kitty Flanagan's Tuesday segment in which Ballard discusses a news story based on a recent scientific, statistical, social or medical study in humour.
[17] As in previous years, Channel Ten continued to air The Project over summer in a bid to gain more of an audience share, particularly due to the lack of other new content of rival networks.
He then proceeded to ask Gillard for advice on how to improve his hair, to which she suggested that he take himself to a hair-dresser right away and spend 'buckets and buckets of money on in-salon treatments'.
[25] On 25 November 2012, the final half-hour Sunday edition aired and it was hosted by Carrie Bickmore and Andrew Rochford along with panellists Magdalena Roze and Anthony 'Lehmo' Lehmann.
When host Carrie Bickmore asked him about his views on the recent death of Margaret Thatcher, Lydon told her to shut up continuously before telling her that 'when a man is talking, you don't interrupt', a quote that drew considerable gasps from the audience.
On 2 May, Carrie Bickmore became emotional when speaking about the awareness of brain cancer following a story about a potential cure for the disease in ten years' time.
[33] On 8 December 2013, it was announced that regular host Dave Hughes was quitting The Project in order to concentrate on his stand-up comedy routine with a national tour in 2014.
[36] In November 2015, Waleed Aly attacked the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in a five-minute piece titled 'What ISIL wants'.
[42] In January 2020, Peter van Onselen replaced Hamish Macdonald as host of The Sunday Project and became a regular fill-in presenter for Waleed Aly.
[48] On 18 December 2022, it was announced that comedians Sam Taunton and Michael Hing were joining the panel as regular co-hosts in 2023, replacing previous presenters Peter Helliar and Tommy Little.
The Games Project, looked at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.and featured a range of guests including Nicole Livingstone and again ran for an hour, airing before the Opening Ceremony.
The special celebrated Australia and looked into tourism recovery due to the COVID-19 crisis including problems, solutions, research and interviews with business and government.
The special aired following the regular edition of the show and virtually reconnected with survivors and their families, whom Bickmore had interviewed on the 10th anniversary, to discover how they were coping another decade on.
The end of daylight saving time in some states was also attributed to its rising ratings (the practice has proved to be detrimental to the performance of early evening programs such as The 7PM Project).
[64] The Project struggled since returning to screens in 2013 with episodes rarely achieving ratings above half a million and increasingly finding itself outside the national top 20 programs for the night.
Waleed Aly's occasional "Something we should talk about" segments, written with The Project's managing editor, Tom Whitty, gathered a large amount of attention on news sites and social media, particularly through the program's Facebook page, where several videos attracted over one million views.
[74] In March 2016, The Project used an edited image of Sudanese-Australian rapper Ror Akot to promote a story on South Sudanese gang violence in Melbourne.
[76] On 27 May 2017, tennis great and Christian pastor Margaret Court appeared on the program after she wrote a letter saying she was "disappointed Qantas had become an active promoter for same sex marriage".
A former executive producer at Channel 10 stated, "What The Project should do right now is show a bit of that clip, have Waleed and Pete sit there and talk about it and the lessons they've learned and what they'll do going forward.
[89] Wilkinson released a statement saying that Dreyfuss had not been "ambushed" or "mugged" and warned that she had the email chain to prove it, further stating "As a journalist I make no apology for courteously asking an entirely legitimate question about a subject you had spoken of before and which has generated more headlines than anything you've done in the last 20 years.
"[90] In November 2022, the program faced criticism for airing an interview in which celebrity chef George Calombaris claimed he was the victim of cancel culture after his company was found underpaying his workers $7.8 million in wages.