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Annabel Crabb is an ABC writer and presenter who has covered Australian politics for nearly 30 years as a news reporter, columnist and broadcaster.
Annabel is known for her ability to make dull subjects interesting. For the ABC, Annabel created the political interview series Kitchen Cabinet, which has aired for eight seasons on ABCTV, and she wrote and presented three top-rating documentary series about the Australian parliament: The House, Ms Represented, and 2025's Civic Duty.
Annabel has also hosted the ABC's Australian history and food series, Back In Time For Dinner, Further Back In Time For Dinner and Back In Time For The Corner Shop, and two seasons of Tomorrow Tonight, She is a regular face on ABC TV's election night and Budget broadcasts and has a long history of appearances on ABC's Insiders program, including a stint as acting host in 2019. Annabel won a Walkley Award for her Quarterly Essay Stop At Nothing: The Life And Adventures Of Malcolm Turnbull, and in 2024 was named columnist of the year at the Kennedy Awards for her political commentary at the ABC. In 2014, she wrote the non-fiction bestseller The Wife Drought, about gender and work in Australia, and she has recently published a children's book on how the Australian parliament works, titled "There's A Prawn In Parliament House".
Annabel has also written two cookbooks, "Special Delivery" and "Special Guest" with childhood friend Wendy Sharpe, and has toured comedy festivals with her award-winning standup show "Fifty Odd Years Of Crabb".
With friend and ABC colleague Leigh Sales, Annabel co-hosts the podcast Chat 10 Looks 3, which has taken the pair to live shows in Australia, London and Hong Kong. She created the ABC's "History Or Hoarding?" podcast in 2026.
Annabel is a lively and versatile speaker whose favourite topics include politics, leadership, gender at work, the lessons of history and the multiple ways in which she has made a goose of herself as a live broadcaster, a parent and a writer over years of valiant attempts to do all three of those things at once.
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