Battlers and Billionaires: The updated story of inequality in Australia

Name: Battlers and Billionaires: The updated story of inequality in Australia
Start: 2024-10-23T11:00:00+10:00
End: 2024-10-23T12:00:00+10:00
Location: The University of Sydney

Schedule

Wed Oct 23 2024 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

The University of Sydney | Redfern, NS

Economist and parliamentarian Andrew Leigh will be in conversation with technology entrepreneur and philanthropist Cliff Obrecht about Andrew’s new book, 'Battlers and Billionaires: The Updated Story of Inequality in Australia'.
DETAILS
This event will be held in-person at the University of Sydney Camperdown campus.
Register (free): https://bit.ly/4d2iwQX
This event is presented with Sydney Knowledge Hub, a startup incubator and facilitator of collaborations with industry that supports research commercialisation at the University of Sydney.
SPEAKERS
- Andrew Leigh has been a member of the Australian Parliament since 2010. He holds a PhD from Harvard, having graduated from the University of Sydney with first class honours in Arts and Law. He is the author or coauthor of a dozen books on politics and economics. Andrew is a keen Ironman triathlete and ultramarathoner, and lives in Canberra with his wife Gweneth and their three sons.
– Cliff Obrecht is one-third of the founding team behind Canva, the ubiquitous communication platform which is used worldwide and widely considered Australia’s most successful start-up to date. Born and raised in Perth, Obrecht graduated from The University of Western Australia with an Arts and Education degree, which he credits helping him on his journey through the start-up business world and has become part of the company’s ethos.
HOST
- Julie Cairney is a Professor in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research – Enterprise and Engagement) and CEO of Microscopy Australia. Julie grew up in outback Australia in the town of Broken Hill and studied Materials Science and Engineering at UNSW under a scholarship from Pasminco Limited (a former mining company based in Broken Hill). In 2002, she was awarded a PhD (Physical Metallurgy) also from UNSW. The next few years were spent working as a researcher at the University of Birmingham, UK and the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart, Germany, before returning to Australia.