Sally Glaetzer | Hobart Mercury | 7th May 2016 I HAD not pictured the workplace of one of Australia’s bestknown economists to be such a menagerie. Two excited dogs rush in and out of the flap door, which leads from Saul Eslake’s home office to a walled garden. Stairs in the original area of the […]

Karl Fitzgerald | Renegade Economists radio show #430 | 19th Feb 2016 Karl Fitzgerald: And welcome the Renegade Economist with your host, Karl Fitzgerald. And, my, oh, my, hasn’t it been in the news, negative gearing, there’s been a huge change in sentiment not only from both political parties, but from the media itself. And […]

Interview with Dominic Rolfe, ABC The Brief, 29th May 2015

Michael Short | The Zone | 13th Aug 2013 ‘Interview with Michael Short, opinion page editor of the Melbourne Age newspaper, published in his column ‘The Zone’ Michael Short: Saul Eslake, welcome to The Zone. Thank you for your time. You have been one of Australia’s leading economists and public policy analysts for a quarter […]

Tim Colebatch | Sydney Morning Herald | 16th June 2009 WE thought we knew Peter Costello well, and in a sense we did: the tall blond guy with the swagger of self-confidence, the master of the wounding jibe, the frowning, serious treasurer in a dark blue suit, the fluent wit and speaker. All these were […]

Andrew Probyn | The West Australian | 7th December 2007

Peter Martin | Peter Costello at close quarters | 26th November 2007 Costello “liked to weild the power that had been bestowed upon him.” There was “an implicit threat of unspecified retaliation” Question time has lost its spark. No-one in parliament could hold a candle to Peter Costello as an entertainer. All the talk about […]