REID federal Liberal MP Craig Laundy and his wife Suzie remember, only with the help of hindsight, that their toddler Analise was behaving a little differently from her older siblings. The base is not the conservative element of the “If that were the case, then you are talking about 15% to 20% of Australia … and the sheer mathematics, and this is the beauty of politics, it comes down to simple maths.
It’s almost like your team-mates see you miss the tackle, but instead of making the tackle to cover you, then they turn around and blame you for missing the tackle.”The weeks leading up to the conservative-led strike against Turnbull was the worst of it. The practical effect is people in safe seats dominate the power structures and the policy-making at the core of the government, and not the group defending the marginal seats, who are closer to their communities by necessity.
He says when Turnbull unseated Tony Abbott in 2015, he was on the winning side. “That’s the power of the Canberra bubble, the fact that [Sky] commentators, in the isolation of your office, can whip people up into a frenzy.” Laundy says those broadcasters have no impact on public consciousness in Australia at all, but “the impact they have is in the mind of the politician whilst in Canberra – and that’s something we need to break”.Then there’s the impact of the rolling factional war.
[Politics] is the only team I know where cover defence is a rarity. Laundy’s wife got on the plane, and they spent Turnbull’s last night in the job “chatting through things, and consoling, basically”. His mindset forged in the family business – be pragmatic, be personable, form alliances – was out of step with the default political culture.“It’s the weirdest team I’ve ever been part of,” Laundy tells Guardian Australia’s political podcast, Australian Politics Live.He uses a rugby analogy to try to explain. I had a ringside seat.”But Laundy wants to push deeper than simply reflecting on one mad political fortnight, On the first point, how government works, Laundy believes the whole decision-making dynamic is back to front.
Craig was born in Sydney and educated at St Patrick's College, Strathfield, St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, and the University of New South Wales, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Economics. ‘The minute my team-mates knew Malcolm was gone, they left,’ says Liberal MP who stood by Turnbull until the endThe call was motivated by the most basic of human instincts, empathy. I stayed with Malcolm. He thinks this is the wrong way round.
Laundy's office was briefly locked down until police determined the packages were harmless, and the activist group In 2015 Laundy was shown photographs of a dead Syrian toddler fleeing the Now he’s experienced being on the losing side, keeping vigil beside a leader being blasted out of office.
It’s like a cloister, or a hot-house incubating exotic plants.As a sense of crisis builds inside a government, the inhabitants of the building are isolated in their offices, and even intelligent people get swept up. “Whenever I do leave, my parting message to the people of Reid will be thank you so much for the opportunity to serve. First speech; Browse all speeches (Hansard) Biography Parliamentary service. The Laundy’s are a Labor-leaning family. Craig is the first in the clan to go into politics, and to vote Liberal.Moving from business to politics was a steep learning curve. The Laundy family has amassed a hotel portfolio among the biggest in Australia and after quitting politics former Liberal Party MP Craig Laundy is set to step back behind the bar.
They worked with Scott.