Publications
Here you can find articles or essays which I have written and which have been published elsewhere
Labor’s negative gearing aims echo Coalition housing changes
Housing, Publications, Taxation | 23rd March 2016Saul Eslake | The New Daily | 23rd March 2016 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been vocal in decrying the Labor Opposition’s plans to restrict negative gearing to investors buying new properties, claiming it will lead to a crash in the price of existing housing. But the evidence is against this hypothesis. Over the last five […]
Negative gearing proponents’ claims don’t stack up
Publications, Taxation | 15th March 2016Saul Eslake | The New Daily | 16th March 2016 Negative gearing policy has been a battleground for many years and its emergence as a hot button issue in the upcoming federal election has brought the friends and enemies of the practice into the field once more. Some are warning about “unintended consequences” which they say […]
The case against negative gearing
Publications, Taxation | 18th February 2016Op-ed article published in the Australian Financial Review, 18th February 2016, alongside an opposing viewpoint from Ken Morrison, CEO of the Property Council of Australia
Reflections on and lessons from a career as an economist
Economics and Economists, Publications | 10th November 2013Article published in ‘Insights’, by the Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne, vol 14, Nov 2013, pp.45-51
The Meaning of ‘Thank you for your patience’
Australian Society and Politics, Publications | 18th June 2013Article published in “Management Today” (the monthly journal of the Australian Institute of Management), June 2013
Security theatre in the UK
Publications, Security | 13th February 2013A letter to the editor published in the Financial Times of 13th February 2013 (written while flying between London and Edinburgh)
Pulp mill mistakes mustn’t be repeated in the Tarkine
Publications, Tasmania | 4th September 2012Saul Eslake | Launceston Examiner | 4th September 2012 Op-ed article originally published in the Launceston Examiner newspaper on 4th September 2012. Now that it seems increasingly likely that the mill will not be built, it seems to me that there are a couple of important conclusions to be drawn from the experience. The first […]
Australia’s Productivity Performance
Productivity, Publications | 18th February 2012Essay published in the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA)’s Annual Political and Economic Overview, February 2012