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Annabel Crabb

Annabel Crabb is the ABC’s chief online political writer. She is the author of Rise of the Ruddbot, Losing It and Quarterly Essay 34, ‘Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull’, which won a 2009 Walkley Award.
 
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Prime Minister, Interrupted: Why One Year After the Election Voters Still Don’t Know Who Gillard Is

Annabel Crabb

In return for this triennial exertion, Australian voters implicitly demand a few standards. We don’t have the American horror of big...

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 The end of journalism as we know it. Annabel Crabb

The end of journalism as we know it. Annabel Crabb

Annabel Crabb

Media companies are desperately looking for new and viable ways to distribute their content - via the internet, the iPad, and a host of...

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 Good Ideas = Bad Politics. Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Good Ideas = Bad Politics. Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Part 1 | Part 2 In a country where Question Time is a blood sport and a strong current of anti-intellectualism runs through public life, it...

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 The Rise (and Fall) of the Ruddbot: Annabel Crabb with Julian Morrow

The Rise (and Fall) of the Ruddbot: Annabel Crabb with Julian Morrow

Annabel Crabb

Part 1 | Part 2 Outstanding political commentator, journalist and writer Annabel Crabb is the author of the now-infamously-titled The Rise...

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 Battlelines: Tony Abbott talks to Annabel Crabb

Battlelines: Tony Abbott talks to Annabel Crabb

Part 1 | Part 2A relaxed and comfortable Tony Abbott talks to Annabel Crabb about his memoir Battlelines and the ideas and events that have...

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 Hitchens, Crabb, Rees: Programmatic specificity we can believe in

Hitchens, Crabb, Rees: Programmatic specificity we can believe in

Part 1 | Part 2In this lively and very amusing Sydney Writers' Festival session, Christopher Hitchens, Annabel Crabb and Nathan Rees...

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 How social media is changing political reporting

How social media is changing political reporting

Part 1 | Part 2 From the Media140 conference in Sydney comes this session on the changes that social media, such as Youtube, Facebook and...

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