Annabel Crabb's Civic Duty

Season 1

2025 · 3 episodes · 2h 30m in all

Episodes

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   1. Fairness

   10 Nov 2025 · 49 min

   We begin with one of the enduring oddities of the Australian electoral system - preferential voting. Vaunted by mathematicians and theorists as a fairer way of voting. Adopted, uniquely, by Australia in 1918.

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   2. Disruption

   17 Nov 2025 · 49 min

   In the early days, Parliament House hosted an all-male conclave of politicians and newspapermen, sharing a cramped environment and a complex code of conventions and mutual dependency. But the age of disruption has arrived.

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   3. People Power

   24 Nov 2025 · 52 min

   Democracies operate according to rules, but they also change. Sometimes at the hands of visionary or power-hungry leaders, sometimes in response to external forces, and sometimes as a result of people power.