Director of Entrepreneurship for UTS. Advocate for Australian Entrepreneurship 🇦🇺 Formerly CEO Fishburners, Startup Muster, Ad Muncher, Westpac’s accelerator.
Sydney, Australia
Joined June 2012
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AI research into housing affordability in Australia.
NSW has made zoning changes which will take 10 years
Phasing out negative gearing and taxing investment properties will help.
Immigration has had an impact but not at the level the politicians and social media would suggest
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On 29 April, we’re bringing together the most ambitious builders for Australia’s first Codex Hackathon 🇦🇺
Build something in a single afternoon that wouldn’t be possible without Codex.
~$200K USD in credits & subscriptions up for grabs.
We’ll bring the tokens and vibes ✨ - see you there.
Link below 👇
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Haters: "Show me the data"
*Show them the data*
Haters: "That's too complicated, I can't understand it. It must be wrong and you're just trying to trick me."
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Andrew you are an unstoppable force for good for Australia - thank you for your kind commentary on the new @startupmuster report, and everything else you do for the country.
Startup Muster 2025 captures the pace and personality of Australia’s startup scene. Launch speech: andrewleigh.com/speech_takin… #auspol @Murray @LotFourteen
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Today 6pm AEDT I’ll be jumping on r/Australian Reddit for an AMA. I’ll be covering off Labor policy, my ministerial work, economics more broadly or the simple joys (and pains) of long-distance running reddit.com/r/australian/comm…
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Transparency matters. That’s why we’re moving to a single, public register so Australians can see who really owns and controls our companies. A clearer picture means stronger accountability and less room for financial crime ministers.treasury.gov.au/mi… #auspol
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Innovation isn’t just about traditional breakthroughs, it’s also about broadening who gets to be a founder. Closing Australia’s innovation gap means more women and diverse entrepreneurs turning ideas into enterprises. My @SmartCompany op-ed: andrewleigh.com/opinion_piec… #auspol
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Glad to see the focus. Reform the SIV to factor in innovation. The people at UTS can help you @AlboMP talk to @Murray and unlike the VC constraints so anyone can be one.
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With an average addressable market size of $441B and a 10-year commercialisation horizon, #DeepTech startups are solving humanity’s most pressing challenges while reshaping global industries.
Our portfolio is leading the charge:
🌊 Uluu: Turning seaweed into biodegradable polymers to replace plastics.
🌱 @loambio: Transforming carbon farming with microbial technology.
🤖 @RiosCorporation: Builds AI agent platforms for automating manufacturing processes.
🚀 @GilmourSpace: Revolutionising small satellite launches with hybrid rockets.
These ventures are shaping the future across AI, healthcare, decarbonisation, and advanced manufacturing—the key sectors spotlighted in this year’s @startupmuster report.
Dive into the insights in the thread below. 👇
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I’m building a data tool on the 45+ looking at particular metrics like health, housing, care needs, and income. This is to understand 52% of Australian voters aged 45+. Here’s info on Dickson QLD @PrimeLifeP @DicksonDecides @SuDharmapala @dinksella @JaneCaro @simonahac #auspol
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Port Macquarie! We can't wait to hang out - Oct 15 events.humanitix.com/spark-m…
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Excited to see the impact Amplify can make, and well done @PaulBassat!
Public discourse still living in the broadcast age
amplifyaus.org/whats-the-poi…
Coining a new term: “Cloud Entrepreneurship” to describe the oncoming flood of low/no cost, AI-enabled new company creation methods. The coming years are going to be wild.
Maybe “Artificial Entrepreneurship” instead… #ae #artificialentrepreneurship
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"You can't improve what you don't measure" is a truism in the startup industry.
If you're in the Australian startup industry, I can't overstate the importance of taking a few minutes out of your day to answer a few questions in the startupmuster.com/ annual national survey.
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"There is now broad recognition that government must play an active role in creating a more inclusive & dynamic knowledge-driven economy, to address the increasingly interconnected challenges of #productivity & #climatechange" My piece @ceda_news ceda.com.au/newsandresources… #FMiA
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More a love letter to books than a list of favourites, Michiko Kakutani's "Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread" left me with oodles of ideas for future reading harpercollins.com.au/9780008… @michikokakutani
