Andrew Leigh 2022

STEPHEN CENATIEMPO:

None of us make our own running shoes, fix our own teeth, or build our own cars. We gain from living in societies where people specialise in what they do best, and work together to produce complex goods and services. So too it makes sense for the relations between countries that the free flow of goods and services has made people around the world healthier, wealthier, and wiser.

The COVID pandemic was good for isolationists and xenophobes, and bad for globalisers and internationalists. Yet since the agricultural revolution, one of the keys to prosperity has been specialisation. None of us make our own running shoes, fix our own teeth, or build our own cars.

Introduction

Thank you to the Institute of East and West Studies at Yonsei University for inviting me to speak here today.

And to all attending students, thank you for coming along to listen.

I am honoured to be representing the Treasurer as Australia’s Governor to the Asian Development Bank for its 56th annual meeting of the Board of Governors.

I leave today for the Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank in Incheon, Republic of Korea.

It is vital that Australia is well represented at this important meeting for the Asia‑Pacific region as we prepare to hand down the Budget next week.

ADAM SHIRLEY:

RAFAEL EPSTEIN:

Andrew Leigh, thanks for joining us.

ANDREW LEIGH:

Real pleasure, Raf. Great to be with you and your listeners.

EPSTEIN:

You're an ambitious man. You understand the economy. Are you frustrated that the government isn't as ambitious as you are?

LEIGH:

CLINTON MAYNARD:

Thank you for that generous introduction. I acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, 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.

KARALEE KATSAMBANIS:

I am delighted to welcome my next guest – Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, the Honourable Dr Andrew Leigh. Good evening.

ANDREW LEIGH:

Good evening, Karalee. Great to be with you and your listeners.

KATSAMBANIS: