SAUL ESLAKE

Economist

SAUL ESLAKE

  • Economist

‘Welcome to my website …
I’m an independent economist, consultant, speaker,
and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Tasmania’

Panel discussion of the 2018-19 Australian Government Budget

Economic Policies | 10th May 2018

Hosted by the University of Canberra’s National Centre for Social & Economic Modelling (NATSEM) at Parliament House, on 10th May 2018. Other panellists were Senator the Hon Matt Canavan (Minister for Resources); the Hon Andrew Leigh MP (Shadow Assistant Treasurer); and veteran political journalist Michelle Grattan; and chaired by Jane Halton, formerly Secretary of the Departments of Health, and Finance, and now a non-executive director of ANZ Bank.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

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Saul Eslake spoke to Zurich Australia executives and staff at their ‘Accelerate’ conference in Sydney on 9th May 2024, covering short- and longer-term trends in major ‘advanced’ economies, China, India and Australia, with a bit of geo-politics thrown in.



“You are the best economic thinker in the country hands down”

Sheryle Bagwell, recently retired Senior Business Correspondent (and sometime Executive Producer),
ABC Radio National Breakfast


“Just want to congratulate you Saul on the unbelievably good set of slides you just presented, possibly the best I have ever seen. You have set the bar very high.”

Dr Joe Flood, Adjunct Fellow, RMIT University, Pandemicia


“Thank you very much for your excellent presentation for the Economic Society today. It is always a great pleasure to hear your eloquent, up-to-date and comprehensive talks.”

Andrew Trembath, economist, Victorian and Australian Government agencies


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NEWS

TV, Radio & Print Media

Negative Gearing
Economic Policies, Housing, News, Recent Media Interview, Taxation | 26th September 2024

Tasmania’s State Budget 2024 – 2025 with Leon Compton
News, Recent Media Interview, Tasmania | 13th September 2024

Solutions to Australia’s Housing Crisis
Australian Society and Politics, Housing, News, Recent Media Interview | 11th September 2024

All about inflation
Economic Policies, News, Recent Media Interview, The Australian Economy | 31st August 2024

Inflation and the prospects for cuts in Australian interest rates
News, Recent Media Interview, The Australian Economy | 30th August 2024

‘Price-gouging’ and ‘profiteering’ haven’t been major contributors to Australian inflation
Economic Policies, News, The Australian Economy | 26th August 2024

A ‘security blanket’ for Australian manufacturing
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News, Security, The Australian Economy | 26th August 2024

Media Interview: Independent Review of Tasmania’s State Finances with Steve Cannane
News, Recent Media Interview, Tasmania | 20th August 2024

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TESTIMONIALS

What Others Say

Australian Minister for Housing, the Hon. Clare O'Neill MP on ABC Q&A, September 2024

“We are lucky as a State to have an economist of your calibre willing to readily make yourself available to give us a clea r perception of where we are at and the direction we need to go for a better future”
Diplomatic Representative, August 2024

“You are one of the best at what you do in the world”
Gail Fosler, Chief Economist, The Conference Board, New York, December 2002

“I have never known an economist to have such a knowledge of world economic facts and to be able to bring to bear so much information in answering a question without notice”
Charles Goode, Chairman, ANZ Bank, July 2009

“Saul Eslake is … a highly regarded independent economist with the highest degree of integrity"
John Durie, Columnist, The Australian, July 2009

“… one of the few people in this world who can have so many oranges up in the air at the same time but still manage to catch them"
Andrew Clark, journalist, Australian Financial Review, November 2008

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WHAT'S NEW

Most Recent Articles, Talks and Presentations

Opening Statement to Senate Select Committee on the Tasmanian Freight Equalization Scheme
Economic Policies, Tasmania
13th November 2024

“Hiding in Plain Sight” – $180 billion of spending over four years.
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, The Australian Economy, Topics
11th November 2024

‘Tasmanian Money Matters’ – Tasmania’s Economy and Public Finances
Economic Policies, Tasmania
3rd October 2024

Challenges and Opportunities for Australian Agriculture
Commodities, The Australian Economy
1st October 2024

Negative Gearing
Economic Policies, Housing, News, Recent Media Interview, Taxation
26th September 2024

Will Anthony Albanese succeed where Bill Shorten failed in making changes to the taxation treatment of property investment?
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Housing, Taxation
26th September 2024

‘Super for housing’ is a souped-up first home owners grants scheme – and it won’t help any more than first home owners grants have
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Housing
24th September 2024

‘Super for Housing’ – a Thoroughly Bad Idea
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Housing, The Australian Economy, Topics
19th September 2024

A ‘path back to surplus’ for the Tasmanian Budget? Not really
Tasmania
17th September 2024

What’s happening in the economy – nationally and in Tasmania
Economic Policies, Tasmania, The Australian Economy
13th September 2024

Tasmania’s State Budget 2024 – 2025 with Leon Compton
News, Recent Media Interview, Tasmania
13th September 2024

Tasmania’s 2024-25 State Budget – an Assessment
Economic Policies, Tasmania
12th September 2024

Solutions to Australia’s Housing Crisis
Australian Society and Politics, Housing, News, Recent Media Interview
11th September 2024

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TOPICS

Articles, Talks and Presentations

The Arts
Asian Economies
The Australian Economy
Australian Society and Politics
Commodities
Economic Policies
Economics and Economists
Education
The Global Economy
Globalization
Housing
Labour Market
Productivity
Security
Tasmania
Taxation

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PUBLICATIONS

Here you can find articles or essays which I have written and which have been published elsewhere

A new dawn over stormy seas
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Publications, The Australian Economy | 23rd May 2022

Who are the ‘better managers’ of Australia’s economy?
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Publications, The Australian Economy | 21st April 2022

The costs and consequences of ‘small business fetishism’
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Publications, Taxation, The Australian Economy | 10th December 2021

A chat with Alan Kohler
Economic Video, Publications | 19th October 2021

Old wine in new bottles: more ‘rent-seeking’ from South Australian manufacturing interests
Economic Policies, Publications, The Australian Economy | 17th September 2021

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