Andrew Keith Leigh (born 3 August 1972) is an Australian politician, author, lawyer and former professor of economics at the Australian National University. He currently serves as the Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury[1] as well as the Assistant Minister for Employment.[2] He briefly served as the Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Julia Gillard in 2013 and then served as Shadow Assistant Treasurer from 2013 to 2019. He has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2010 representing the seat of Fraser until 2016 and Fenner thereafter. Leigh is not a member of any factions of the Labor Party.
Early life and education
Both Leigh's parents are academics and both came from homes of social activists "in the Christian socialist tradition".[3] Leigh's maternal grandfather, a boilermaker and Methodist lay preacher, used the family's spare room to shelter a constant stream of refugees from places like Cambodia and Chile, who were escaping the regimes of Pol Pot and Augusto Pinochet.[3]
Leigh's early years of education were in Sydney, Melbourne, Malaysia and Indonesia before completing secondary education at James Ruse Agricultural High School in Sydney, New South Wales.[4] He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in 1994, and a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours in 1996. He then obtained a Master of Public Administration degree and a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, where his thesis was "Essays in poverty and inequality".[5][6][7] At Harvard, Leigh was a Doctoral Fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Centre for Social Policy from 2002 to 2004, and a Frank Knox Fellow from 2000 to 2004.[8]
In the 1995 NSW election, Leigh stood as the Labor candidate for the New South Wales state seat of Northcott, receiving an 8-point swing, but nonetheless losing by a large margin to Barry O'Farrell of the Liberal Party.[14] Since then, O'Farrell sends Leigh "lovely little handwritten congratulations" for life milestones.[11]
On 24 April 2010, Leigh was selected as Labor's candidate for the Australian federal seat of Fraser[15] following the announced retirement of Bob McMullan. Fraser was a safe Labor seat.[16] Leigh was subsequently elected in the Australian federal election held on 21 August 2010.[17]
After the 2013 federal election, Leigh was appointed by Bill Shorten as Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Competition. After the 2016 federal election, Leigh continued as the Shadow Assistant Treasurer and added the portfolios of Shadow Minister for Competition and Productivity, Shadow Minister for Charities and Not-for-Profits, and Shadow Minister for Trade in Services.
After the 2019 federal election, Leigh was dropped from the outer ministry of the Shadow Ministry of Anthony Albanese due to his decision to remain factionally unaligned. Leigh however was appointed to the parliamentary secretary-level positions of Shadow Assistant Minister for Treasury and Shadow Assistant Minister for Charities.[21]
Albanese Government Ministry
After the 2022 federal election, Leigh was appointed the Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury. In this role, he has criticised the lack of dynamism in the Australian economy, and the decline in social capital in the Australian community. In May 2023, Leigh was appointed Assistant Minister for Employment.[1]
Political views
Leigh identifies as a social democrat, but within the Australian Labor Party he is aligned to no faction.[3] He has argued that Labor MPs should have more autonomy to dissent from caucus decisions.[22] In a 2002 book he co-edited with the political scientist David Burchell, The Prince's New Clothes: Why Do Australians Dislike Their Politicians? Leigh suggested a more aggressive media, which covers politics like sport and gossip, and a general breakdown in "interpersonal" trust were largely responsible for politicians' falling stocks.[3]
In making his first speech, he identified the American liberal Senator, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, as his role model.[23] In the central part of his speech, he spoke about the Australian Project:
This Australian project is not finished. It’s not something that stopped with the end of the First World War or with the death of Ben Chifley....To me, the Australian project is about encouraging economic growth, while ensuring that its benefits are shared across the community. It is about making sure that all Australians have great public services, regardless of ethnicity, income or postcode. And it is about recognising that governments have a role in expanding opportunities, because no child gets to choose the circumstances of their birth.[23]
Economic growth
Leigh believes the "passion for raising living standards" is part of the Australian identity.[23] He believes growth comes with free markets and innovation — and he strongly identifies with the liberalism of Australia's second Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin.[24] In 2019, Leigh claimed the beliefs of the contemporary Australian Labor Party was that of social liberalism.[25] Leigh credits Labor to being the inheritor of small-l liberalism in Australia, and that "social liberals have been cast out of the Liberal Party of Australia".[25] In the digital age, that liberalism means a market that is free to develop technological innovation, even with its "creative destruction".[26] With his co-author Joshua Gans, Leigh has argued that the state must be wary of making entrepreneurs face prohibitively high costs, even as they face high chance of failure.[26]
Community
When Leigh went to Harvard for post-graduate research, he studied under the social scientist Robert Putnam, who had published the major work on declining social capital in America, Bowling Alone.[3] Leigh has observed that Australians also 'bowl alone', as they are financially stretched, time poor, and unable to make regular commitments.[27] Leigh is concerned that online communities have actually created more alienation for Australians, but this can be ameliorated when the state encourages volunteering and community groups[28]
Opportunity
Inequality is a key concern for Leigh, whose research has indicated that inequality is at a 75-year high within Australia.[29] Though Leigh maintains that inequality is not automatically a bad thing in itself, it does concern him in practice because he believes that "rising inequality strains the social fabric".[23] As a result, Leigh advocates some redistribution of wealth, in order to maintain opportunity for people.[3] Leigh particularly wants to see university made more affordable than it is for most young people now.[30]
Honours and awards
Leigh delivered the 2004 Garran Oration of the Institute of Public Administration Australia. In 2006 he was awarded the Best Discussant Award at the Annual PhD Conference in Economics and Business in 2006 and the Early Career Award by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.[31] Also in 2011 Leigh was appointed a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. In 2011, Leigh was awarded the Economic Society of Australia's Young Economist Award. This award, presented once every two years, is given to "honour that Australian economist under the age of forty who is deemed to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge".[32] In 2022, Leigh was awarded the Accountability Round Table's John Button integrity award.[33]
Sport
Leigh is the first sitting Australian politician to complete the following:
His best marathon time is 2:42:48, in the 2017 Tokyo Marathon.,[39] and he has run all six marathon majors in under three hours.[40]
Leigh’s best Ironman time is 10:48:11 in the 2021 Cairns Ironman.[41]
In an article in Men’s Health, he described his favourite running routes in each Australian capital city.[42] Leigh races as a supporter of the Indigenous Marathon Foundation. Leigh discusses the role of sport in his life in his book Fair Game: Lessons from Sport for a Fairer Society and a Stronger Economy.
Personal life
Leigh is married to Gweneth Leigh, a landscape architect.[11] As of 2024, they have been married for 20 years.[43] Leigh met Gweneth during his time at Harvard University.[11] They live in Canberra with their three sons, Sebastian, Theodore and Zachary.[9] He has said that "both parenting and politics should be done with a sense of kindness".[44]
In 2015, Leigh's family Christmas card went viral for his scowling toddler.[45] Speaking of the Christmas card in 2019, Leigh said, "people didn’t want to see airbrushed politics; they preferred to know that our kids were just as grumpy as everyone else’s".[44] Leigh appeared on America's Today Show to discuss the photograph.[44]
Bibliography
Books
Leigh, Andrew & David Burchell, eds. (2002). The prince's new clothes : why do Australians dislike their politicians. University of NSW Press. ISBN978-0-86840-604-6.
—; Magregor Duncan; David Madden & Peter Tynan (2004). Imagining Australia : ideas for our future. Allen & Unwin. ISBN978-1-74114-382-9.
— (2013). Battlers and billionaires : the story of inequality in Australia. Black Inc. ISBN978-1-86395-607-9.
— (2014). The economics of just about everything: the hidden reasons for our curious choices and surprising successes. Allen & Unwin. ISBN978-1-74331-471-5.
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