Queensland’s 2025 Australian of the Year employs 80 per cent neurodivergent staff [Video]

Smith co-founded Australian Spatial Analytics (ASA), which provides geo-spatial and engineering services.

Eighty per cent of the company’s employees are neurodivergent and 61 per cent have come from long-term unemployment as a result of barriers facing neurodivergent people entering the workforce.

The unemployment rate for adults with autism is ten times higher than that of the general population.

ASA practises inclusion with workplace supports for executive functioning, social interactions and sensory sensitivities.

Smith aims to employ 1000 people through ASA by 2030.

The Queensland 2025 Senior Australian of the Year has been awarded to Dr Bronwyn Herbert, who was awarded her PhD on homelessness …