SAUL ESLAKE

Economist

SAUL ESLAKE

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I’m an independent economist, speaker, company director
and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Tasmania’

Yearly Archives: 2011


The case against negative gearing …

Publications, Taxation | 25th April 2011

Op-ed article published in the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, 25th April 2011


A tax system that penalizes working & saving, and rewards borrowing & speculating

Publications, Taxation | 30th March 2011

Op-ed article published in the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, 30th March 2011


Billions of dollars wasted on First Home Owner grants

Housing, Publications | 16th March 2011

Op-ed article published in the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, 16th March 2011


Observations on the proposed temporary tax levy to pay for repairs and reconstruction after the 2011 Queensland floods

Taxation | 11th March 2011

Statement to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee hearing on a proposed income tax levy, 11th March 2011


Australia’s Productivity Challenge

Productivity | 19th February 2011

Report co-authored with Marcus Walsh and published by the Grattan Institute, February 2011


Time to question the point, and cost, of airport security rituals

Security | 16th February 2011

Article published in the Melbourne Age, and in the online edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, 16th February 2011


Yes, we could have bananas … 

Economic Policies, Publications | 14th February 2011

Op-ed article published in the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers on 14th February 2011


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“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


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Dr Joe Flood, Adjunct Fellow, RMIT University, Pandemicia


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Andrew Trembath, economist, Victorian and Australian Government agencies


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TESTIMONIALS

What Others Say


“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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