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

Opening Statement to Senate Economics Legislation Committee inquiry into proposed tax reforms
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Taxation
15^th June 2026

The World has Changed – Geo-political Pressures and What They Mean for Australian Manufacturing
Economic Policies, Globalization, Productivity, The Australian Economy
10^th June 2026

Australia’s Economic and Political Outlook
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Housing, Taxation, The Australian Economy
4^th June 2026

Current political and economic developments in Indonesia
Asian Economies
26^th May 2026

A ‘deep dive’ into the 2026-27 Tasmanian State Budget with Labor’s Shane Broad
Economic Policies, Tasmania, Tasmania
26^th May 2026

NEWS

TV, Radio & Print Media

Federal Budget 2026: Capital Gain Tax Reform and Western Australia’s GST Share
Australian Federal Budget, Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Economic Video, Housing, News, Recent Media Interview, Taxation, The Australian Economy | 2^nd April 2026

Inside the WA GST:
The Worst Public Policy of the 21st Century
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News, Recent Media Interview | 4^th November 2025

Recent Surge in the Gold Price
Commodities, News, Recent Media Interview, The Global Economy | 12^th October 2025

Albanese Government’s extension of the 5% deposit scheme
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Housing, News, Recent Media Interview | 8^th October 2025

US Economy, Australia & New Zealand Interest Rates
News, Recent Media Interview, The Australian Economy | 6^th October 2025

WA GST deal adds $6bn to federal budget deficit
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News | 3^rd October 2025

Carving up the revenue from the GST – an in-depth discussion of ‘The Worst Australian Public Policy Decision of the 21st Century Thus Far’
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News, Recent Media Interview | 2^nd October 2025

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

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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

TOPICS

Articles, Talks and Presentations

PUBLICATIONS

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

Interim Report to the ACT Legislative Assembly Select Committee on the Fiscal Sustainability of the ACT
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Publications, The Australian Economy | 2^nd March 2026

Submission to the Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into The Worst Public Policy Decision of the 21st Century Thus Far (aka “the WA GST deal”).
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Publications, The Australian Economy | 5^th January 2026

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

An agenda for tax reform
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Publications, Taxation | 22^nd 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, Publications, Tasmania | 17^th June 2025

LINKS

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

Data and policy

Australian economic data
Australian economic policy makers
Overseas and international economic statistics

Economic journalists, economists and academics

Australian economic journalists
Australian economists and academics
Overseas economists, journalists and academics

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“You are the best economic thinker in the country hands down”

“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.”

“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.”

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