SAUL ESLAKE

Economist

SAUL ESLAKE

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

The west is having its iron ore cake – and eating it too


Economic Policies, News, Publications, The Australian Economy | 24th March 2021

Op-ed piece in the Australian Financial Review on 24th March 2021 about “deal” imposed on states and territories by the Federal Government two years ago which is now producing the perverse result that the Federal Government will have to run an even bigger budget deficit so as to allow Western Australia – the only government in the country, and one of the few in the world to be running a budget surplus – to run an even bigger one.

2021-03-22 GST sharing changes will make WA even richer