Article in Forty South about Tasmania’s AFL Aspiration, published on 15th April 2021

I will be writing two series of ten articles for Forty South over the next six months or so, one about the opportunities and challenges for Tasmania’s economy, and the other about Tasmania’s case for its own team in the Australian Football League competition. The first articles in each of these series are here and […]

Op-ed piece in the Australian Financial Review for 13th April 2021 looking at some of the implications of Covid-induced changes in patterns of work for property markets

Saul talks to Tasmania Talks’ Mike O’Loughlin about the Deloitte Access Economics five-year forecasts for the Tasmanian economy, released on 12th April 2021

Saul Eslake’s 144 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 […]

Saul talks to the Eureka Report’s Alan Kohler about Australia’s better-than-expected recovery from the “corona-recession”, which in turn reflects Australia’s relatively good performance in keeping the virus ‘at bay’ and the larger-than-average volume of fiscal support provided by the Australian Government. He explains how the closure of Australia’s borders to migrants (as well as tourists […]

Feature article published in the Australian Financial Review on 7th April, looking at Australia’s emergence from the recession induced by Covid-19, and the implications for the future course of fiscal and monetary policy

Saul Eslake’s 150 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 […]