1. Craig Arthur Samuel Laundy was born on 16 February 1971 and is a former Australian Liberal Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Reid from 2013 until his retirement in 2019.
11 Facts About Craig Laundy
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Craig Laundy served as Minister for Small and Family Business, the Workplace and Deregulation in the Second Turnbull Ministry, before resigning in August 2018 following the ousting of Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister.
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On 15 March 2019, Laundy announced he would retire from politics at the 2019 federal election.
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Craig Laundy is the son of pub baron Arthur Craig Laundy and his ex-wife Margaret.
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Craig Laundy 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.
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Craig Laundy served as the Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs between February and July 2016 following a rearrangement in the First Turnbull Ministry and served as the Assistant Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science between July 2016 and December 2017 in the Second Turnbull Ministry.
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Craig Laundy resigned from the position in August 2018 following the election of Scott Morrison in a Liberal Party Leadership spill.
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Craig Laundy is co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Palestine Group.
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Craig Laundy publicly opposed the shift in language, saying that the area was occupied by armed Israeli forces.
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Craig Laundy labelled it a grossly irresponsible act, noting that to "send any undeclared substance through the mail to the office of a Member of Parliament will inevitably cause alarm".
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In 2015 Craig Laundy was shown photographs of a dead Syrian toddler fleeing the Syrian civil war by his daughter at the dinner table, which brought him and the rest of his family to tears.