Yearly Archives: 2022
Jobs in Depth with SBS’ Ricardo Gonçalves
News, Recent Media Interview, The Australian Economy | 15th April 2022Saul talks to SBS World News’ Ricardo Gonçalves about todays labour force data
“Better economic managers”: a factcheck with Saul Eslake
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News, Recent Media Interview, The Australian Economy | 13th April 2022Saul talks to Linda Mottram, of ABC Radio’s flagship program “PM” about the accuracy of political parties’ claims, during election campaigns like the current one, to be “better economic managers” than their opponents
How greed and politics threaten Tasmanian living standards
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News, Tasmania | 12th April 2022Article published by the Tasmanian magazine Forty South about the corruption of the long-standing principles under which revenues from the GST (and before the introduction of the GST in 2000, ‘general purpose grants’ from the Federal Government) are shared among Australia’s states and territories How greed and politics threaten Tasmanian living standards
The World Economy this Week 2022-04-11
The World Economy this Week | 11th April 2022Saul Eslake’s World Economy chart pack for week beginning 11th April 2022 covering the global economy, and the economies of major regions – including the United States, Europe, China, Japan, other East Asian countries, India, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (very briefly), Latin America and Central & Eastern Europe – with particular emphasis on: the […]
The Australian Economy this Week 2022-04-08
The Australian Economy this Week | 8th April 2022Saul Eslake’s The Australian Economy this Week chart pack, for week ended 8th April 2022, portrays developments in the Australian economy, with particular emphasis on: the impact of Covid-19, broad indicators of economic growth, conditions in the business sector the household sector, and consumer spending housing finance and construction. and the residential property market the labour market […]
Scott Morrison spruiks Australia’s post-Covid jobs recovery. We factcheck him
Australian Society and Politics, News, The Australian Economy | 8th April 2022Guardian Australia’s Paul Karp filed this story based on an interview with Saul, ‘fact checking’ the PM’s claim that the Covid-19 recession was “30 times worse” than the GFC. Scott Morrison spruiks Australia’s post-Covid jobs recovery. We factcheck him | Australian politics | The Guardian
GST carve up “one of the worst policy decisions” of the past 20 years.
Australian Society and Politics, News | 8th April 2022Yanchep News Online, which serves Yanchep, Gingin and surrounding areas on the northern outskirts of Perth, has very generously (and bravely, some might say), published this article from YT on the GST revenue-sharing ‘dirty deal’ imposed by the Morrison Government three years ago, and which is being ‘phased in’ over five years starting in the […]
The RBA and the Budget
News, Recent Media Interview, The Australian Economy | 7th April 2022Saul Eslake talks to Alan Kohler about the outcome of this week’s RBA Board meeting, which foreshadowed the possibility of a first rate rise in June, and about last week’s Federal Budget AK: And now, here’s Saul Eslake, independent economist and his business is called Corinna Economics. Saul, any surprises in yesterday’s monetary policy decision […]