Andrew Leigh 2022

Competition and Artificial Intelligence*

I acknowledge the Gadigal people, traditional custodians of the land on which we gather today.

KARALEE KATSAMBANIS:

Dr Leigh, thank you for joining me from Canberra. Good evening.

ANDREW LEIGH:

Good evening, Karalee. Great to be with you and the 6PR listeners.

KATSAMBANIS:

It is indeed, well, a big day today in the Federal Parliament.

LEIGH:

LEON DELANEY:

Today is the final sitting day for the Federal Parliament before the referendum. Joining me now the Federal Member for Fenner, not to mention Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury and Assistant Minister for Employment, Dr Andrew Leigh. Good afternoon.

ANDREW LEIGH:

The Government has introduced the Treasury Laws Amendment (Support for Small Business and Charities and Other Measures) Bill 2023 (the Bill) into Parliament. The Bill includes measures to encourage philanthropic giving.

The Bill provides a pathway for up to 28 community foundations to be endorsed as deductible gift recipients.

Social workers in schools always boost student outcomes. Drug offenders shouldn't be treated differently. Malaria bed nets are more likely to be used if people pay for them. Seeing inside a jail will deter juvenile delinquents from becoming criminals.

If anyone needed proof that competition drives better performance, you only need to look at the Matildas, whose peak World Cup soccer matches attracted more viewers than any Australian sporting event in at least a decade.

TOM TILLEY:

Andrew Leigh is Labor's Assistant Minister for Competition, so he's in the hot seat right now because competition is what the Qatar/Qantas issue is all about and it comes at a time where the Government is under a bit of pressure. More pressure than they've been under their whole time in office.

I acknowledge the people of the Kulin Nations, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we gather today.

ANDREW TILLET:

Thank you Dr Leigh, unfortunately we’ve gone a little bit over time for this speech so we might have to get straight to the choose your own adventure part of the proceedings and go to questions from our colleagues. First up is Paul Karp.

PAUL KARP:

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Social workers in schools always boost student outcomes. Drug offenders shouldn’t be treated differently. Malaria bed nets are more likely to be used if people pay for them. Seeing inside a jail will deter juvenile delinquents from becoming criminals.