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Annabel Crabb dines with senator Jacqui Lambie for Kitchen Cabinet.
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Kitchen Cabinet’s staging of “casual” food preparation with the nation’s most powerful people reproduces a culture of white Australian entitlement to master and consume any and every cultural product.
Annabel Crabb’s The Wife Drought brings to mind another – forgotten – feminist text.
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Three years ago Annabel Crabb argued on ABC’s The Drum that a lack of wives is what really holds back women in the Australian workforce. She jokingly suggested that what was needed was a “wife quota…