“In the heat of battle, the thing that most surprised me … was the minute my team-mates knew Malcolm was gone, they left. Laundy’s wife got on the plane, and they spent Turnbull’s last night in the job “chatting through things, and consoling, basically”. You need 50% plus one of the vote in each seat.“You need to be pragmatic enough to understand that, and learn to live together. In September 2014, he declared that he no longer supported a free vote.In 2015, pro same-sex marriage activists sent unmarked letters filled with glitter to the offices of several Federal Coalition MPs. He says people rise to ministerial level in politics through a combination of ability and “tenure”. 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 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. On the second, there is a heavy pause before he answers. The Sydney Liberal moderate, then on Turnbull’s frontbench, was concerned about the prime minister, not as a boss, or as someone to cultivate and flatter, but as a human being.
[Politics] is the only team I know where cover defence is a rarity. “I’ve tried [to serve the national interest] and I think we all try to, but it’s tough.“You are surrounded by switched-on cookies on both sides with differences of views, that are accountable to different subsets of people within the party and the community more broadly.”He says representation is a privilege. Laundy quickly discovered things worked differently in Canberra. The family owns more than 30 pubs across New South Wales. Speeches. All rights reserved. He saw a man under exceptional pressure and understood the toll that would take on his spouse. Hon Craig Laundy MP. ‘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. A better litmus test of whether a policy idea flies or not is the over the horizon radar of marginal seatholders, who find themselves at the bottom of the information pyramid.Then there’s the “Canberra bubble” – often cited, not particularly well understood.
I was worried about him. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. I stayed with Malcolm. Can he recover from being inside a leadership contest, from the insights and epiphanies of that period, and remain in political life; and does he think politicians in 2018 can serve the national interest, or is that objective constantly derailed by the difficulties and the dysfunctions of the life?On the first question, he says “time will tell”. 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.
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. They worked with Scott. 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. 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. Laundy is co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Palestine Group.Laundy does not support same-sex marriage, but had previously supported a conscience vote on the issue. Laundy’s wife got on the plane, and they spent Turnbull’s last night in the job “chatting through things, and consoling, basically”.By Thursday night, after two weeks of high octane intrigues, strikes and counter-strikes, it was just them. Re-elected 2016. He wants to talk about the lived reality of contemporary political life in the hope of explaining the inexplicable, possibly to himself, and certainly to voters watching from the outside; and he wants to talk about it while he’s still in the job in the hope of starting a conversation about how things could change.The Liberal MP is something of an outsider in politics. The family business had bumped up against state politics, not the national scene. “The challenge we are facing right now as a party is to recognise that conservatives and ‘small l’ Liberals … are all our base.
Fairfax Media has been told by an insider on The Real Housewives of Sydney that Stu Laundy's ex-wife, Rachel Laundy, has made the shortlist for the eagerly anticipated second season. I wanted to make sure he and Lucy were OK.”Politics is a deeply human business that specialises in acts devoid of basic humanity.
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