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Saul Eslake’s 143 pages weekly Coronavirus Impact Chart Pack: – charts tracking the spread of Covid-19, globally and in Australia, and government responses to it; – the impact on the global economy and major individual economies such as China, Japan, other Asian economies, the US and Europe;financial and commodities markets; – multiple aspects of the […]

The 2020 Tasmania Report

Tasmania | 10^th December 2020

A review of Tasmania’s experience of Covid-19 and the ensuing recession, and prospects for recovery – prepared for the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The Full Report The Presentation Slides

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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WHAT'S NEW

Most Recent Articles, Talks and Presentations

Another hung parliament solves nothing about Tasmania’s dire fiscal position
Australian Society and Politics, Tasmania
21^st July 2025

The Economies of Asia, Australia and New Zealand
Asian Economies, The Global Economy
10^th July 2025

A podcast about “The Worst Public Policy Decision of the 21st Century Thus Far” – the corruption of the arrangements for distributing revenue from the GST among Australia’s states and territories
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Recent Media Interview
27^th June 2025

Tasmania’s public finances – a comparison with other states and territories in eight charts
Economic Policies, Tasmania
25^th June 2025

An agenda for tax reform
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Taxation
22^nd June 2025

The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump – for the US, and for Australia
Economic Policies, The Australian Economy, The Global Economy
18^th June 2025

Tasmania’s next government needs to have credible plans to return the budget to a cash surplus and reduce debt
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Tasmania
17^th June 2025

The World and Australian Economies in a Nutshell – Presentation to 2025 All Actuaries Summit
Productivity, The Australian Economy, The Global Economy
12^th June 2025

Inequality in the Distribution of Wealth – An Inter-Generational Perspective
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Taxation
5^th June 2025

Tasmanian Government Privatisation Assessment – ‘Stage One’ Report
Economic Policies, Tasmania, Topics
1^st June 2025

Tasmania’s 2025-26 State Budget puts the main task off to another day
Economic Policies, Tasmania
29^th May 2025

Is the United States about to step over a dangerous financial precipice?
Economic Policies, News, The Global Economy
24^th May 2025

Government’s proposal to increase the tax on superannuation
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News, Recent Media Interview, Taxation
22^nd May 2025

The funding of greyhound racing in Tasmania
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Tasmania
22^nd May 2025

Victoria’s profligacy is a problem for all of us
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News, The Australian Economy
20^th May 2025

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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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PUBLICATIONS

Here you can find articles or essays which I have written and which have been published elsewhere

There must be an election on – both major parties are proposing policies which will push up house prices
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Housing, News, Publications, Taxation | 13^th April 2025

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

A new dawn over stormy seas
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Publications, The Australian Economy | 23^rd May 2022

Who are the ‘better managers’ of Australia’s economy?
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Publications, The Australian Economy | 21^st April 2022

The costs and consequences of ‘small business fetishism’
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Publications, Taxation, The Australian Economy | 10^th December 2021

SAUL ESLAKE

Economist

Economist

Yearly Archives: 2020

Success in containing virus crucial to economic recovery

The Economic Outlook for 2021 Part 1 – The World

The Economic Outlook for 2021 Part 2 – Australia

The Economic Outlook for 2021 Part 3 – Q&A

Saul Eslake: The Economic Outlook of 2021

Interview with Aaron Stevens about the 2020 Tasmania Report

Coronavirus Impact Chart Pack 2020-12-12