Craig Thomson's wife, the journalist and political lecturer Zoe Arnold appeared recently in this article in the Women's Weekly.

I wish her family well - but it's difficult to understand these sentiments:

Zoe Arnold, wife of troubled politician Craig Thompson, also spoke about her experience with abuse, which came at the hands of her psychologically abusive father, whom she says she hasn’t spoken to in “over half [her] life”. 

“I never grew up with someone who I loved or admired,” Zoe reveals, “Even as a child, our relationship was more, like, what I could do right by him, and sometimes that was approved and sometimes the things I said really upset him.”

But her relationship with her father is, thankfully, not the only fatherly relationship experience she’d had. 

“I didn’t know what a good father was until I had children with my husband,” she says, “And I was like ‘Oh! This is kind of nice’.”

Craig is now "troubled".  Perhaps "trouble" might be closer to the truth.