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Annabel Crabb

Annabel Crabb is a regular columnist, TV host and leading political commentator.

President-elect Donald Trump with Barack Obama at the White House.

Trump and Obama have a few things in common

There's a great story – possibly apocryphal – about the former Illinois governor, senator and diplomat Adlai Stevenson, drawn from one of his historic electoral whuppings by Dwight Eisenhower, against whom Stevenson twice ran for president in the 1950s.

Former prime minister John Howard gave a rather underwhelming response to a question about the under-representation of ...

Why John Howard is wrong. Very wrong

One of the ancillary effects of our nation's current thing for vigorous prime ministerial crop-rotation is that the last guy to hold down the job for a full term – Mr John Winston Howard, private citizen – has smoothly assumed oracle status.

A Wiradjuri member sings from the public gallery to welcome Linda Burney member for Barton as she delivers her first ...

Parliament's gaudy scandal eclipses quiet achievers

On Thursday morning, a woman whose name will mean nothing to you stepped over the threshold of Parliament House for the first time. Her arrival occasioned very little interest, aside from the slight challenge posed to Parliament's rigorous security guidelines by the fact that she carried no identification, and signed her admission form with an "X".