July 2025

Unlocking science for the greater good requires more than innovation. It demands leadership, trust, and systems-level thinking.  When we first came together in 2020 to launch the MedTech Actuator Menzies Fellowship and Scholarship programs, the question wasn’t simply how to help scientists commercialise their research. It was broader and deeper: how can we prepare a […]

Episode 2, A Purposeful Edge: Leading in Uncertainty When heritage is treated as expendable and inclusion is seen as optional, leadership must stand for something more enduring.  In this episode of A Purposeful Edge: Leading in Uncertainty, Dr Peter Collins is joined by Dr Terri Janke, a Wuthathi, Yadhaigana and Meriam woman, lawyer and global

In a media landscape increasingly shaped by algorithmic feeds, misinformation, and declining trust, the role of independent, community-rooted journalism has never been more vital. That’s why the Menzies Leadership Foundation is proud to support the Local and Independent News Association (LINA) through a matched funding contribution to their 2025 national fundraising initiative. LINA represents a

The Menzies Leadership Foundation warmly congratulates our Board Director Tony Surtees AM on his appointment as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours List, recognised for “significant service to the support and advocacy of technological and charitable entrepreneurialism.” Tony is a visionary leader whose career bridges technology, entrepreneurship, public

By Dr. Aiden M.A. Thornton “The leadership we need will not happen by chance. There needs to be ever-stronger purposeful support and development.”  This quote from Leading in Complexity: An Initial Enquiry in Tasmania highlights a concern familiar to many leadership scholars and practitioners:  effective leadership does not simply emerge from good intentions or coincidence

Episode 1, A Purposeful Edge: Leading in Uncertainty When old certainties collapse, leadership must become something more than operational, it must become deeply transformational. In this first episode of the A Purposeful Edge: Leading in Uncertainty podcast series, Dr Peter Collins is joined by Professor Rufus Black, Vice Chancellor of the University of Tasmania, to