Andrew Leigh MP: Speeches & Conversations

Why unions are vital to Advance Australia Fair - Melbourne, 2 October 2018

As a part of the ANU / Canberra Times 'Meet the Author' series, I joined Peter Mares to shine some light on Australia's housing affordabilty blindspots.

Peter's new book is called No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia's Housing Crisis. 

More than a million lower-income households in Australia pay above the affordability benchmark for their housing costs. More than 100,000 people are homeless. Seventy per cent of us are concerned we'll never own property. Yet owning a home is still seen by most Australians as an essential part of our way of life.

Peter's expertly informed and eminently readable, No Place Like Home cuts through the noise around housing affordability and asks the common-sense questions about why we do housing the way we do, and what the alternatives might be.

You can learn more about No Place Like Home here.

"How the tax system can narrow (or widen) the gender gap" was presented as part of the Women's Economic Network Seminar, on 7 September 2018, at the NSW State Library.

"How the tax system can narrow (or widen) the gender gap" was presented as part of the Women's Economic Network Seminar, on 7 September 2018, at the NSW State Library.

On 12 July 2018, Brookings hosted a launch of Randomistas featuring Thomas D. Cook, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Northwestern University and author or editor of 10 books on research, research design, and evaluation, Rebecca Maynard, professor of education and social policy at University of Pennsylvania, and Jon Baron, Vice President of Evidence-Based Policy at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. The conversation was chaired by Richard V. Reeves, Senior Fellow at the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution.

On 12 July 2018, Brookings hosted a launch of Randomistas featuring Thomas D. Cook, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Northwestern University and author or editor of 10 books on research, research design, and evaluation, Rebecca Maynard, professor of education and social policy at University of Pennsylvania, and Jon Baron, Vice President of Evidence-Based Policy at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. The conversation was chaired by Richard V. Reeves, Senior Fellow at the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution.

On 14 May 2018, I joined Dr Karl Kruszelnicki for a conversation at Gleebooks Sydney about my new book, Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World. This podcast was originally aired on Dr Karl's excellent podcast, Shirtloads of Science. 

i was thrilled to join Mary Delahunty and Narelle Cooper to discuss gender equality and the value of work as part of CEDA’s Women in Leadership: diversity and inclusion series.

The series examines the value of paid and unpaid work, and ask how the future of work will impact prospects for greater gender equality in the workplace.

For more information about the event and CEDA, click here.

A transcript of the speech is available here. 

i was thrilled to join Mary Delahunty and Narelle Cooper to discuss gender equality and the value of work as part of CEDA’s Women in Leadership: diversity and inclusion series.

The series examines the value of paid and unpaid work, and ask how the future of work will impact prospects for greater gender equality in the workplace.

For more information about the event and CEDA, click here.

A transcript of the speech is available here. 

I was very pleased to be asked to offer the vote of thanks at Hugh Mackay's Canberra launch for his new book, Australia Reimagined. Hugh is a prolific and highly regarded social researcher with a vision for a more compassionate and socially cohesive Australia. 

You can learn more about Australia Reimagined here.