Andrew Leigh 2025

The fifth Albanese Government funded CHOICE quarterly report into supermarket prices released today gives consumers the latest pricing information on household products, including popular ingredients for winter meals.

Kicking off the second year of reports for supermarket shoppers, CHOICE priced groceries at 104 supermarkets in 27 locations across Australia in March.

Patricia Karvelas:

My guest this afternoon is the Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury, Andrew Leigh – welcome to the program.

Andrew Leigh:

Thanks, Patricia. Great to be with you.

Karvelas:

Ross Solly:

Andrew Leigh is the Assistant Minister for Productivity, and he joins us this morning. Andrew Leigh good morning to you.

Andrew Leigh:

Good morning Ross, great to be with you.

Solly:

Mutual gains: a cooperative approach to competition

G’day everyone – and thanks for inviting me to be part of the Business Council of Co‑operatives and Mutuals’ CEO Strategy Roundtable. I acknowledge the Gadigal people of Sydney and the Ngunnawal people of Canberra, and recognise the important work that cooperatives and mutuals do to spread opportunity in First Nations communities.

Stephen Cenatiempo:

One person who has done a few of these CEO sleepouts is the Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury, Andrew Leigh. Good morning Andrew.

Andrew Leigh:

Good morning Stephen, great to be with you.

Cenatiempo:

Deborah Knight:

We need all the help we can get with our economy barely growing at the moment and the government Assistant Minister with the job of getting productivity back on track is Andrew Leigh, Assistant Manager for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury. Assistant Minister, welcome to Money News.

Good morning everyone,

It’s a pleasure to be here with you – the kind of people who quietly judge those who say ‘data is’; who experience mild distress at exploded pie charts and who’ve been known to correct a dinner guest on the difference between mean, median and mode.

People after my own heart.

The Australian Government is strengthening philanthropy by consulting on new rules to ensure more money flows from charitable trusts to Australian charities.

As part of these changes, public and private ancillary funds will be renamed ‘giving funds’ – a clearer term that better reflects their role in supporting charitable giving.

The Albanese Labor Government has today released a consultation paper on proposed cost recovery fees under the new merger system – as part of the biggest reforms to Australia’s merger system in 50 years.

This reform will make our merger approval system faster, simpler, more targeted and more transparent.

It’s a real pleasure to open the inaugural Grant Impact Forum.

Now, let’s be honest. ‘Grant‑making’ is not the kind of word that lights up a dinner party. It’s never going to rival football or crime podcasts in national popularity. But what it lacks in glamour, it more than makes up for in significance.