Kitchen Cabinet
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Former Home Affairs Minister and Liberal MP Karen Andrews has announced she will resign at the next election and in this candid interview she describes why Parliament House is the most sexist environment she's ever worked in.
31:00Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe is one of the Parliament's most recognisable faces. Noted for her fiery ways, Thorpe also has a ribald sense of humour. Annabel delves into what has shaped her life and views.
30:00Labor Minister Linda Burney tells Annabel Crabb the remarkable tale of her childhood, the lessons she learnt from grief and her journey to become the first Indigenous woman to sit in the federal House of Representatives.
31:00Annabel Crabb meets Peter Dutton to find out what makes this former Queensland cop turned political hardman tick. No stranger to controversy, Dutton explains how a self-confessed shy kid became the Leader of the Opposition.
30:00Independent Dai Le tells Annabel Crabb how she survived war, cancer and pirates on her way to becoming a Western Sydney politician. On the menu, a crispy Vietnamese pancake, banh xeo.
30:00Over trout pasta, Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie explains the loneliness that comes from being in the eye of a political scandal. She also instructs Annabel in the art of clay target shooting at a Wodonga rifle range.
30:00Minister for Aged Care and Sport Anika Wells juggles a big job, three kids under the age of 6 and a chronic illness. While batch cooking a colossal lasagne she explains why she's in a hurry to make her political mark. (Final)
30:00Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John was the youngest person to join the Senate and the first Senator to use a wheelchair. He explains to Annabel how being young and living with a disability has shaped his approach to politics.
31:00
Annabel heads to Far North QLD to meet Coalition MP Warren Entsch. Warren picks Annabel up on his motorbike and they zoom to his property outside Cairns where he prepares a seafood feast freshly caught from the Torres Strait
31:00Annabel Crabb invites herself over to the Canberra share house of WA Greens Senator Scott Ludlam. He claims he can't cook, so Annabel arrives with ingredients to teach the reluctant Ludlam how to make a simple tomato pasta.
33:00Labor Senator Sam Dastyari, who began his life in an Iranian village, takes Annabel to a Persian grocer to demonstrate his lineage & pulls off a genuine Persian dish despite his friends wagering heavily against that outcome.
34:00Annabel Crabb travels to Tasmania to dine with colourful crossbench Senator Jacqui Lambie. A former soldier, she led her own political party, the Jacqui Lambie Network into the July 2016 Election.
33:00Annabel Crabb has lunch with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and finds out how he is faring on the 2016 campaign trail. #KitchenCabinet
30:00Annabel Crabb joins Opposition Leader Bill Shorten for a campaign pit stop. #KitchenCabinet
31:00Annabel Crabb is joined by former campaign staffers Claire Kimball & Lachlan Harris, plus press gallery veterans Mike Bowers & Samantha Maiden to share war stories from the election campaign. #KitchenCabinet
33:00Annabel heads to Perth to meet Liberal Senator Michaelia Cash. She whips up a salmon bake and talks about her travels in the Middle East, tough negotiations in the senate and her beloved cats. #KitchenCabinet
33:00After his election as Leader of the Nationals we revisit Barnaby Joyce's 2012 Kitchen Cabinet. Annabel Crabb travelled to St George in Queensland to speak to the then-Senator, prior to his elevation to Deputy Prime Minister.
34:00In a Kitchen Cabinet first, Annabel Crabb presides over a cross party lunch, when Liberal Minister Christopher Pyne dines with Labor MP Anthony Albanese at a Canberra Chinese restaurant. #KitchenCabinet
37:00Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke opens the doors to his Sydney home and takes Annabel on a house tour that involves both an inclinator and an elevator, before serving up steamed Asian fish.
33:00Annabel Crabb heads to the Adelaide home of conservative Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi. Over lunch they discuss why he's one of the most controversial figures in parliament, same sex marriage, multiculturalism & more. (Final)