Annabel Crabb presents the highly acclaimed Kitchen Cabinet series, and is also a regular contributor and presenter to The Drum on ABC News 24. Annabel began her career in 1997 at The Adelaide Advertiser and moved on to cover politics for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, where she was a columnist and sketch-writer. From 2004 to 2007, Annabel was London correspondent for the Fairfax Sunday editions. At the end of 2009, Annabel joined the ABC. She appears regularly on Insiders.
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Hardly anyone gets to see the whole building, thanks to restrictions on access and photography, but Annabel Crabb negotiated access to Parliament's secret tunnels and hidden gems.
Topics: federal-parliament, government-and-politics, architecture, federal-government, abbott-tony, turnbull-malcolm, canberra-2600
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It was designed to protect us from traitors and criminals, but Section 44 has forced politicians into some extraordinary acts of intrepidity. And if the latest citizenship saga proves anything, it's that paperwork can be a bitch, writes Annabel Crabb.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, constitution, parliament, federal-parliament, australia
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You can tell a lot about a budget by looking at who it punishes. This one basically targets anyone who's ever appeared on A Current Affair accompanied by a low, menacing soundtrack, writes Annabel Crabb.
Topics: budget, government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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Of all the dead-wrong predictions made about this election, nothing could be more off-beam than the expectation that it would provide a unifying moment for American women, writes Annabel Crabb.
Topics: us-elections, world-politics, women, united-states
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The fact Bill Shorten can reverse so many principled stances at once without a wholesale party backlash, and while smiling ear-to-ear, tells you all you need to know about Australian politics right now.
Topics: turnbull-malcolm, bill-shorten, government-and-politics, federal-parliament, australia
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In what other hominid beats a heart so uniquely attuned to the impenetrable snowdrifts of the UN's famous bureaucracy? But for the third time now, Kevin Rudd has lost his dream job thanks to fat mortal fingers.
Topics: rudd-kevin, turnbull-malcolm, foreign-affairs
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Even the Coalition's most optimistic projections involve Malcolm Turnbull holding power by a razor thin margin. A situation in which party unity is simultaneously of maximum importance and minimum achievability.
Topics: turnbull-malcolm, bill-shorten, federal-elections, government-and-politics, federal-parliament
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The very existence of the National Disability Insurance Scheme - to begin national operation this Friday - is a powerful rebuttal to that contemporary whine about big policy reforms being too hard for our short political attention spans.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, disabilities, health
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Isn't it ironic that as the average life expectancy of Australian prime ministers and treasurers gets shorter, the deadlines they set themselves to fix everything get longer and longer?
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, business-economics-and-finance, budget, federal-election
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Of all the arrows that have - since last September - pierced the hearts of hopeful left-wingers across Australia, surely today's is the sharpest: Malcolm Turnbull is now friends with Alan Jones.
Topics: turnbull-malcolm, federal-government, media, journalism, federal-elections
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Malcolm Turnbull came to the prime ministership determined to change the nature of politics itself, writes Annabel Crabb, in an excerpt from her latest book Stop At Nothing: The Life and Times of Malcolm Turnbull.
Topics: turnbull-malcolm, federal-election, elections, federal-elections, government-and-politics, books-literature, australia
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Labor's really taken to this 10-year budget accounting thing, and why not? Bill Shorten has defied recent benchmarks to remain Labor Leader for a whole term, and shown how stability can help policy formation.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, business-economics-and-finance, budget
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Were we all in the budget lockup as part of some sort of fermented cactus-juice experiment in the desert? Had Scott Morrison in fact morphed into Jim Morrison? There was a lot that separated this budget - sorry, plan - from any we've seen before.
Topics: scott-morrison, turnbull-malcolm, budget
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A former banker will campaign against the unions and a former unionist will campaign against the banks. There's an uncanny symmetry to Election 2016 right down to the perfectly balanced polls.
Topics: federal-elections, unions, turnbull-malcolm, bill-shorten
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The PM's manoeuvres over the budget, double dissolution and industrial relations legislation have a familiar Turnbullian feel, and show he has seized the initiative by the scruff of its neck.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-election, budget
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It's the day that we're meant to be taking a stand against bullying, and right on cue, our MPs have given us a handy guide to the ugly behaviour we should be looking out for.
Topics: government-and-politics, gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, federal-election
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For days now, and with all the fervour of a drunk at a bus stop, the Senate has been arguing with itself about its own fate. A more frightening hellscape of passive aggression is yet to be identified.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-election, electoral-system
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There's no love lost between Tony Windsor and his former party. But while he's previously unseated a Nationals MP, it's another thing entirely to bring down the Deputy PM.
Topics: federal-parliament, federal-government, joyce-barnaby, nationals
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As the debate took a turn towards unicorns this week, the strangest development might be the fact we now have a Government and Opposition with genuinely different economic policies that they're prepared to fight an election over.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, tax, budget, federal-elections
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Warren Truss is out, Barnaby Joyce is in, and yet another minister might be headed for the departure lounge. A Government that was determined to talk "jobs, jobs, jobs" is ending this week doing exactly that; as in, who's getting what, and when.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-election
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We are now free to embark upon Election 2016 with the correct degree of federally-mandated exuberance. But you can calm down on the double-dissolution front.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-election
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Tony Abbott was born for the thrill of leading a band of underestimated traditionalists against a vast left-wing conspiracy of Greens, unions and Point Piper pinot-gris-guzzlers.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament
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The ascension of Malcolm Turnbull and the existence of the new Paris climate agreement raises a fascinating question: which political entity now speaks for the climate sceptics? Watch this space, because it won't be empty for long.
Topics: government-and-politics, climate-change, environment, environmental-policy
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Over her remarkable career Peta Credlin generally avoided the notorious lady-trap of calling out sexism in politics, but last night she just could not hold it in any more. Sound familiar?
Topics: federal-government, women, abbott-tony
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In his first major act in power, Malcolm Turnbull rewarded his supporters, confused his enemies, and reminded the rest of us that political life isn't about to get boring.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, turnbull-malcolm
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