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SAUL ESLAKE

Economist

SAUL ESLAKE

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

Recent Media Interview


Negative Gearing

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

Saul talks to ABC News Channel’s “Afternoon Briefing” presenter Greg Jennett about reports that the Albanese Government may be thinking about changes to negative gearing and/or the capital gains tax discount, and what such changes might mean for housing affordability.


Tasmania’s State Budget 2024 – 2025 with Leon Compton

News, Recent Media Interview, Tasmania | 13th September 2024

Saul talks to ABC Hobart’s Leon Compton about Tasmania’s State Budget 2024 – 2025 


Solutions to Australia’s Housing Crisis

Australian Society and Politics, Housing, News, Recent Media Interview | 11th September 2024

Saul Eslake spoke to ABC Radio Brisbane’s Afternoons presenter Kate Feeney about solutions to Australia’s housing crisis on 10th September 2024


All about inflation

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

Saul Eslake: Australia’s recent inflation experience, what caused it, and how the Government and the Reserve Bank are responding to it


Inflation and the prospects for cuts in Australian interest rates

News, Recent Media Interview, The Australian Economy | 30th August 2024

Saul Eslake talks to Turkish TV station TRT World about Australia’s experience in combatting inflation and the prospects for cuts in Australian interest rates – not this year.


Media Interview: Independent Review of Tasmania’s State Finances with Steve Cannane

News, Recent Media Interview, Tasmania | 20th August 2024

Saul Eslake talks to ABC Radio National Breakfast’s Steve Cannade about the Independent Review of Tasmania’s State Finances which was released on 19th Aug 2024.


Media Interview: Independent Review of Tasmania’s State Finances with Leon Compton

News, Recent Media Interview, Tasmania | 19th August 2024

Saul Eslake talks to ABC Mornings’ Leon Compton about the Independent Review of Tasmania’s State Finances which was released on 19th Aug 2024.


ATO’s Latest Taxation Statistics – June 2024

News, Recent Media Interview, Taxation | 20th June 2024

Saul Eslake spoke with ABC Radio Hobart’s ‘Breakfast’ presenter Ryk Goddard about some of the findings from the ATO’s latest “Taxation Statistics” publication, including the number of taxpayers with incomes of more than $1 million, the number with incomes of less than $45,000, and the number who are negatively-geared property investors.


SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

Speaking Engagement | Boardroom Advisory | Commissioned Report | Expert Witness



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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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


Widening the Gap – An Intergenerational Lens on Wealth Inequality in Australia
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Housing, The Australian Economy
12th December 2024


How Victoria became one of Australia’s ‘poor states’
Economic Policies, News, Publications, The Australian Economy
25th November 2024


Elections and economies – the US and Australia
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, The Australian Economy, The Global Economy
23rd November 2024


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


LINKS

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Below is a list of links I’ve found useful under the following broad topics

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