Kitchen Cabinet (TV series)

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Kitchen Cabinet is a TV program [1] in Australia on the ABC, hosted by Annabel Crabb.

Australia Country in Oceania

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. The population of 25 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

ABC (Australian TV channel) First Australian public television network

ABC is a national public television network in Australia. Launched on 5 November 1956 it is the responsibility of the ABC's television division, and is available nationally. ABC head office is based in the inner-city suburb of Sydney, Ultimo.

Annabel Crabb Australian journalist and commentator

Annabel Crabb is an Australian political journalist, commentator and television host who is the ABC's chief online political writer. She has worked for Adelaide's The Advertiser, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the Sunday Age and The Sun-Herald, and won a Walkley Award in 2009 for her Quarterly Essay, "Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull". She has written two books covering events within the Australian Labor Party, as well The Wife Drought, a book about women's work life balance. She has hosted ABC television shows Kitchen Cabinet, The House and Back in Time for Dinner.

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Format

The format is an informal interview program with Australian politicians over a meal prepared by both Crabb and her guest, normally in the guest's home. Crabb brings a dessert and the guest provides their choice of main meal. It is in the 30-minute format.

A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government. Politicians propose, support and create laws or policies that govern the land and, by extension, its people. Broadly speaking, a "politician" can be anyone who seeks to achieve political power in any bureaucratic institution.

Dessert A course that concludes a meal; usually sweet

Dessert is a course that concludes an evening meal. The course usually consists of sweet foods, such as confections dishes or fruit, and possibly a beverage such as dessert wine or liqueur, however in the United States it may include coffee, cheeses, nuts, or other savory items regarded as a separate course elsewhere. In some parts of the world, such as much of central and western Africa, and most parts of China, there is no tradition of a dessert course to conclude a meal.

On several occasions, there have been two guests, typically with one being a self-confessed non-cook who brings in a helper. Crabb chats with the guest(s) during the preparation, and the meal while they eat.

Crabb's being pescotarian has meant that on some occasions the protein for her has been fish-based. Her food preference has also been a factor in her preparation of the desserts.

The show has received mostly positive reviews. [2] [3]

Episodes

Season 1 (2012)

No. in
series
No. in
season
GuestOriginal air date
11"Christopher Pyne and Amanda Vanstone"22 February 2012 (2012-02-22)
22"Nigel Scullion"29 February 2012 (2012-02-29)
33"Penny Wong"7 March 2012 (2012-03-07)
44"Julie Bishop"14 March 2012 (2012-03-14)
55"Tanya Plibersek"21 March 2012 (2012-03-21)
66"Dick Adams"28 March 2012 (2012-03-28)

Season 2 (2012)

No. in
series
No. in
season
GuestOriginal air date
71"Joe Hockey"10 October 2012 (2012-10-10)
82"Bronwyn Bishop"17 October 2012 (2012-10-17)
93"Peter Garrett"24 October 2012 (2012-10-24)
104"Barnaby Joyce"31 October 2012 (2012-10-31)
115"Louise Pratt"7 November 2012 (2012-11-07)
126"Christine Milne"14 November 2012 (2012-11-14)

Season 3 (2013)

No. in
series
No. in
season
GuestOriginal air date
131"Malcolm Turnbull"2 July 2013 (2013-07-02)
142"Craig Emerson"9 July 2013 (2013-07-09)
153"Nick Xenophon"16 July 2013 (2013-07-16)
164"Jenny Macklin"23 July 2013 (2013-07-23)
175"Sussan Ley and Bill Heffernan"30 July 2013 (2013-07-30)
186"Doug Cameron"6 August 2013 (2013-08-06)
197"Tony Abbott"4 September 2013 (2013-09-04)
208"Kevin Rudd"5 September 2013 (2013-09-05)

Season 4 (2014)

No. in
series
No. in
season
GuestOriginal air date
211"Bob Hawke"21 October 2014 (2014-10-21)
222"Andrew Robb and Mary Jo Fisher"28 October 2014 (2014-10-28)
233"Bill Shorten"4 November 2014 (2014-11-04)
244"Mathias Cormann"11 November 2014 (2014-11-11)
255"Anna Burke"9 November 2014 (2014-11-09)
266"Warren Entsch"25 November 2014 (2014-11-25)
277"Clive Palmer"2 December 2014 (2014-12-02)

Season 5 (2015)

No. in
series
No. in
season
GuestOriginal air date
281"Scott Morrison"28 October 2015 (2015-10-28)
292"Anthony Albanese and Christopher Pyne"4 November 2015 (2015-11-04)
303"Ricky Muir"11 November 2015 (2015-11-11)
314"Nova Peris"18 November 2015 (2015-11-18)
325"Richard Di Natale"25 November 2015 (2015-11-25)
336"Cory Bernardi"2 December 2015 (2015-12-02)

Season 6 (2016)

No. in
series
No. in
season
GuestOriginal air date
341"Jacqui Lambie" [4] 26 May 2016 (2016-05-26)
352"Sam Dastyari"2 June 2016 (2016-06-02)
363"Scott Ludlam"9 June 2016 (2016-06-09)
374"Michaelia Cash"16 June 2016 (2016-06-16)
385"Malcolm Turnbull"23 June 2016 (2016-06-23)
396"Bill Shorten"30 June 2016 (2016-06-30)

Guests

Crabb has said that her most memorable show was with Senator Nigel Scullion, when he took her collecting crustaceans in the coastal mud flats of the Northern Territory. [5]

Nigel Scullion Australian politician

Nigel Gregory Scullion is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for the Northern Territory since November 2001, representing Country Liberal Party. He sits with the National Party in the Senate, and has been the Leader of the Nationals in the Senate since 2013; he previously served in that role between 2007 and 2008, and was Deputy Leader of the National Party between 2007 and 2013. Scullion has served as the Minister for Indigenous Affairs since 18 September 2013, in the governments of Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, and Scott Morrison and is the only minister to serve in the same portfolio under these three prime ministers.

Crustacean subphylum of arthropods

Crustaceans form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles. The crustacean group is usually treated as a subphylum, and because of recent molecular studies it is now well accepted that the crustacean group is paraphyletic, and comprises all animals in the Pancrustacea clade other than hexapods. Some crustaceans are more closely related to insects and other hexapods than they are to certain other crustaceans.

Northern Territory federal territory of Australia

The Northern Territory is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. It shares borders with Western Australia to the west, South Australia to the south, and Queensland to the east. To the north, the territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other Indonesian islands. The NT covers 1,349,129 square kilometres (520,902 sq mi), making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 246,700, making it the least-populous of Australia's eight states and major territories, with fewer than half as many people as Tasmania.

2013 Federal Election Kitchen Cabinet shows

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Anthony John Abbott is an Australian politician who served as the 28th Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 2009 to 2015. He served as Leader of the Opposition from 2009 to 2013. Abbott was first elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Warringah in 1994.

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Kevin Michael Rudd is an Australian former politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from December 2007 to June 2010 and again from June to September 2013. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party.

2016 Federal Election Kitchen Cabinet shows

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References

  1. "Kitchen Cabinet" . Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  2. "If you can't stand the heat ..." The Sydney Morning Herald. 16 February 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  3. Fresh Crabb for dinner, Lucy Saunders, The Spectator, 17 March 2012, accessed 5 September 2013
  4. Knox, David (12 May 2016). "Renewed: Kitchen Cabinet". TV Tonight . Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  5. Ten questions for Annabel Crabb, Nick Leys, The Australian, 2 September 2013, accessed 4 September 2013
  6. Kitchen Cabinet special: Rudd and Abbott - The aprons are on, ANC News Online, 19 August 2013, accessed 4 September 2013