Minister for small business Craig Laundy, in 2016. Source: AAP/Paul Miller
A jam-packed year of federal politics has been capped off with a cabinet reshuffle, and the small business community is now set to welcome a new minister who has spent the past year focusing on executing the govenrment’s innovation agenda.
Craig Laundy, the federal member for the inner-western Sydney seat of Reid, will take on the expanded portfolio of Small and Family Business, Workplaces and Deregulation.
The larger portfolio gives Laundy direct responsibility for workplace relations, as well as small business and deregulation.
He takes over from Nationals MP Michael McCormack, who will now become the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Defence Personnel and work with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on the ANZAC centenary.
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