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SAUL ESLAKE

Economist

SAUL ESLAKE

‘Welcome to my website …
I’m an independent economist, consultant, speaker,
and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Tasmania’

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TV, Radio and Print Media

US Economy, Australia & New Zealand Interest Rates

News, Recent Media Interview, The Australian Economy | 6th October 2025

Saul Eslake: RBA’s September 2025 meeting & Australian interest rate outlook.


WA GST deal adds $6bn to federal budget deficit

Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News | 3rd October 2025

The Australian also has a good article by Paul Garvey (who, it’s worth noting, is based in Perth) about the WA GST deal on 1st 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 | 2nd October 2025

I had a long conversation with the host of ABC Radio’s “Nightlife” program, Philip Clark, about the way in which the distribution of GST revenue among Australia’s states and territories has been perverted by the desire of Federal politicians (from both sides of the aisle) to win votes and seats from Australia’s richest state, Western […]


Is the United States about to step over a dangerous financial precipice?

Economic Policies, News, The Global Economy | 24th May 2025

Interest rates on US Federal Government debt are on the cusp of exceeding the growth rate of (nominal) US GDP – an unusual situation, and one which challenges what has been the ‘conventional wisdom’ in economic policy-making circles for at least the past six years that government deficits and debt may not matter as much […]


Government’s proposal to increase the tax on superannuation

Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News, Recent Media Interview, Taxation | 22nd May 2025

Saul Eslake talks to Radio 2HD Newcastle’s Brent Bultitude about the Government’s proposal to increase the tax on superannuation balances of more than $3 million, including by taxing unrealized capital gains in those funds


Victoria’s profligacy is a problem for all of us

Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News, Publications, The Australian Economy | 20th May 2025

Saul Eslake’s op-ed on the 2025-26 Victorian Budget, published in The Australian Financial Review on 20th May 2025


Labor should use its second victory as a platform for ambitious reform

Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News, Publications | 5th May 2025

Saul Eslake’s op-ed article in The Australian Financial Review of 5th May 2025, looking at the economic policy landscape in the aftermath of the 2025 Federal election which saw the Labor Goverment of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese returned with an increased majority – something that no first-time government has ever previously achieved in Australian political history


The two worrying trends revealed in Australia’s AAA warning

Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News, Publications, The Australian Economy | 30th April 2025

Saul Eslake’s op-ed published in The Australian Financial Review on 30th April about two sources of risk to Australia’s AAA credit rating, highlighted by S&P’s warning at the beginning of the final week of the 2025 election campaign.


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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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

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