Annabel Crabb

Going to air on ABC/ iView in a minute ... episode 2 of Civic Duty, in which we look at unique Australian history of media and politics, see how it's all blown up this century, and learn the truth of what Tony Abbott was thinking in the great stare-off with Mark Riley in 2011.

Tonight on ABC 8.30pm... from bingo rollers to drunken whalers to vote-eating dingoes... tales from our unique democratic system and the visionaries and scoundrels who formed it... here's a primer I wrote. All 3 eps stream on iView from noon today! abc.net.au/news/2025-11-09/c…

TONIGHT: I'm not quite sure how and when she managed this, but @patskarvelas has put together what looks to be an unmissable @4corners ep about the civil war inside the Liberal Party @abcnews abc.net.au/news/2025-05-26/l…

My new column: Coalition ties the knot with One Nation, in a quiet registry affair abc.net.au/news/2025-04-23/p…

New column: "Ute Man" has been a potent identity figure for nearly a decade, but he's basically two car salesmen and a tax accountant in a Driza-Bone abc.net.au/news/2025-04-16/u…

New Politics Now pod ep... @patskarvelas and I talk new world order. Is Donald Trump Making Everybody Else Great Again? And we identify points during Election 2025 Week One at which both major leaders fell over, in one case literally. abc.net.au/listen/programs/p…

The newest arrivals on the electoral roll are also the hardest to reach via conventional means... this is good from @PatsKarvelas who earlier this year also pointed out that millennials and Gen Z will this election outnumber Boomers for the first time

ANALYSIS: This loud, unpleasant, unproductive, predictable and unnecessary brawl obscures a deeper question: How is it that our immigration authorities are so consistently adept at generating an immigration crisis when there isn't one? Just up @abcnews abc.net.au/news/2024-08-21/p…

Analysis: The eye-popping profits of gambling giants are the closest thing this country has to a hypothecated tax on the already-disadvantaged... is it fair to ask them to prop up sporting codes and media companies too? My new column @abcnews abc.net.au/news/2024-08-14/g…

The first Black female POTUS nominee chooses a white guy to be her Veep. Will he be branded with the calculated insult: "Diversity hire"? 😉 Here's some research on what that term actually entails for women and POC... my new column at @abcnews abc.net.au/news/2024-08-07/k…

ANALYSIS: Peter Dutton today hit the nuke button, the biggest risk taken by any Liberal leader in opposition since John Hewson's Fightback. Hewson says the comparison is "insulting"... my column up at @abcnews abc.net.au/news/2024-06-19/a…

abc.net.au/news/2024-06-12/a… ANALYSIS: My new column for @abcnews "The Australian media industry tells a long and continuing story ... of mediocre men whose shamelessness extends their professional life expectancies well beyond a real meritocracy would permit."

ANALYSIS: Tonight's Budget reply: "Meat on the bones" of the Opposition's plan for the nation? Not for Peter Dutton, who has worked in a butcher shop and knows that is not how meat works. Tonight's speech was a rhetorical carve-up. abc.net.au/news/2024-05-16/f…

The undercurrent that thrums below the headlines of this Budget: A complete transformation of the climate debate in this country. My analysis for @abcnews abc.net.au/news/2024-05-15/f…

"It's not about you, mate": My column at ABC today is about what male leaders sometimes get wrong when they encounter female distress. Even when they're well-intentioned. If you do choose to do me the honour of reading it, I'd suggest getting to the end. abc.net.au/news/2024-05-01/a…

I've started a weekly column on Wednesdays at ABC ... today's is about the #Lehrmann judgment: abc.net.au/news/2024-04-17/a…

Amazing that the capacity of the #Lehrmann case to destroy everything in its path like a column of army ants seems to extend to Federal Court audio infrastructure.