The truth about politics in a social media world
Annabel Crabb The thumbs-up, thumbs-down voting system doesn't work in politics, because politics is never that simple.
Team Feminism: where are all the ladies?
Annabel Crabb Have you noticed this new brand of feminists running around the place? They're hairy-legged, trouser-wearing, argumentative and pushy. They hardly ever wear bras.
What two rats taught us about politicians this week
Annabel Crabb Election campaigns are mostly a sprawling social experiment in which grown men and women are subjected to a series of vicious humiliations in the most artificial of circumstances, and judged on their...
Goodbye Clive, it's been real
Annabel Crabb Dear Clive, It's hard to believe we're saying goodbye already.
The fiendish banana skin of politics takes another victim
Annabel Crabb Sometimes in politics, days start out bad and just get worse.
How the humble rubber band is saving lives
Annabel Crabb Small acts of human ingenuity, thoughtfully applied, can work miracles.
Election campaign 2016: A classic Rich v Poor affair
Annabel Crabb This election is fought between a former banker who wants to introduce tougher controls on unionists, and a former unionist who wants to introduce tougher controls on bankers.
The economists desperately trying to explain what the Budget might mean
Annabel Crabb There has never been a more exciting time to be an accountant. Really.
Annabel Crabb: strange times indeed when senators put principle before self-interest
Annabel Crabb In the now-customary farrago of drama and low farce that is a working week in Australia's capital, something happened on Monday night that was both weird and surprising.
Annabel Crabb: My smartphone has a mind of its own (and it's proving too much for me)
Annabel Crabb I always knew, as phones evolved into smart phones, that sooner or later – when my phone finally reached the point at which it was cleverer than I am – we'd have problems.
No sex please, if you want to be PM
Annabel Crabb The past week has demonstrated one of the most durable and yet under-recognised rules of politics: A person who writes a novel with a sex scene will never be prime minister.
ABS has no vital statistics on housework - for 10 years!
Annabel Crabb There's been a huge gap in information about who has done the housework for 10 years.
Handbag dilemma compounds as roles get weightier
Annabel Crabb Like our brains, women's bags have to do 10 things at once. And that's tiring enough, even before tax.
Sexual peccadilloes in high political circles fail to ignite nation's interest
Annabel Crabb Canberra bookshops have become a cactus patch of social awkwardness.
Annabel Crabb: The end of the world is nigh
Annabel Crabb As the world moves fizzingly towards the Apocalypse (I do like a column that starts cheery) there are mounting signs that the end is finally in sight.
PUPA claiming the limelight in Olympic fashion
Annabel Crabb With the Rio Olympics only months away - will it be gold, gold, GOLD for Australia?
Backstab all you like - but please, do it in private
Annabel Crabb Social media lets us take the sorts of things we used to mutter in the privacy of our own homes and broadcast them.
Those takedowns we love, even if we hate to admit it
Annabel Crabb Of all the furtive pleasures available to the modern human being, surely the spectacle of another person being mown down in viciously perfect prose is the most shameful.
How to ignore the UN while pretending it really has a role to play
Annabel Crabb One key point of illumination from Julian Assange's announcement on Thursday is the rich impotence of the United Nations.
The model, the media moguls and Mariah: a match made in media heaven
Annabel Crabb Moguls who have made their dough in tabloid media are rarely uncontroversial. But you really have to rise and salute when they decide to put a little back into the entertainment ecosystem.
