Andrew Leigh 2022

KARALEE KATSAMBANIS:

And welcome back to Money News, 133 8882 or you can send me a text 0487 999 882, as I said at the top of the show. I am delighted to be joined now by Dr Andrew Leigh who is Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury with some great new initiatives that he has introduced. Dr Leigh, good evening.

How many people can you talk to without having to watch what you say? In 1984, Australian adults averaged nine trusted friends. A generation later it had fallen to five.

Two decades ago the typical person got together socially with others about once a week. In a new survey, the average person's response was closer to once a fortnight.

ANDREW LEIGH:

KIERAN GILBERT:

On one of our top stories today, an increase in the unemployment rate from 3.5 to 3.7 per cent. I spoke a short time ago with the Assistant Minister for the Treasury, Andrew Leigh.

ANDREW LEIGH:

Thank you all for joining us. My name is Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury. I acknowledge the Ngunnawal people, pay my respects to their elders, and commit myself, as a member of the Albanese government, to the implementation in full of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

GREG JENNETT:

As part of the Albanese Government’s Better Competition election commitment, consumer and small business advocates will be empowered to raise systemic complaints within the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) from July 2024.

KIERAN GILBERT:

Now the Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, Dr. Andrew Leigh is an economist by trade. I spoke to him earlier and I asked him whether he thinks this week's Budget would make the inflation challenge worse.

ANDREW LEIGH:

GALLAGHER:

MATTHEW PANTELIS:

Let's have a chat with Dr Andrew Leigh, who is the Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, he joins me now. Minister, good morning.

ANDREW LEIGH:

Good morning, Matthew. How are you?

PANTELIS: