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The tax system should preference new businesses, not small ones
News, Publications, Taxation | 29th September 2020Article in The New Daily, a news site owned by industry superannuation funds, 29th September 2020.
Saul talks to well-known business commentator Peter Switzer
News, Tasmania, Taxation | 17th September 2020Interview with Peter Switzer, 17th September 2020 Saul talks to well-known business commentator Peter Switzer about tax preferences for small business, and his proposal for the re-introduction of what Peter insists on calling a ‘death tax’ in Tasmania
Tassie economist Saul Eslake calls for discussions around tax reform in new report – Tasmania Talks
News, Tasmania, Taxation | 16th September 2020Saul talks to Tasmania Talks’ Aaron Stevens about Reforming Tasmania’s tax system: some options report, 16th Sep 2020.
Covid-19 ends Australia’s 28-year run without a recession. Economy contracts a record 7% in the second quarter
News | 2nd September 2020Comment on Australia’s Q2 GDP result in the Financial Times 2nd September 2020
A (very brief) radio piece on ‘Modern Monetary Theory’
Economic Policies, News | 27th July 2020Interview with ABC Radio National’s Senior Business Correspondent Sheryle Bagwell about ‘Modern Monetary Theory’ on Monday 21st July.
Saul Eslake talks with Elysse Morgan about the pathway to recovery from the Covid-induced recession
News, The Australian Economy | 21st July 2020Saul Eslake talks with Elysse Morgan, host of ABC-TV’s “The Business”, about the pathway to recovery from the Covid-induced recession. 8th June 2020
Global Poverty at the Crossroads
News, The Global Economy | 21st July 2020A review of ‘The Parlous State of Poverty Education’, a report to the UN Human Rights Council by the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Australian-born lawyer Philip Alston. This was first published on Inside Story on 21st July 2020.
Discussion of the First Report of the (Tasmanian) Premier’s Economic and Social Recovery Advisory Council
News, Tasmania | 21st July 2020Saul Eslake talks with Aaron Stevens from Tasmania Talks about the First Report of the (Tasmanian) Premier’s Economic and Social Recovery Advisory Council, 21st July 2020.