SAUL ESLAKE

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The treasurer ‘made the right call’ to recalibrate Coalition’s fiscal strategy

Economic Policies, News | 4^th October 2020

Pre-budget interview on Sky News Australia with Sharri Markson, 4th October 2020

Coronavirus: Victorians fined more than rest of the country

News | 4^th October 2020

Interview with Brett Mcleod on 9 News Melbourne, 5th October 2020 ‘Heavy-handed’ cops slammed after new COVID-19 fines data emerges. Victorians are paying a bigger price than other states because of the response to coronavirus – not just in terms of lockdowns, but also fines. One of Australia’s leading economists has labelled Victoria a police […]

Victoria heavy-handed on COVID fines: Eslake

News, Publications | 1^st October 2020

The Australian, 30th September 2020

The tax system should preference new businesses, not small ones

News, Publications, Taxation | 29^th September 2020

Article in The New Daily, a news site owned by industry superannuation funds, 29th September 2020.

Saul talks to well-known business commentator Peter Switzer

News, Tasmania, Taxation | 17^th September 2020

Interview with Peter Switzer, 17th September 2020 Saul talks to well-known business commentator Peter Switzer about tax preferences for small business, and his proposal for the re-introduction of what Peter insists on calling a ‘death tax’ in Tasmania

Tassie economist Saul Eslake calls for discussions around tax reform in new report – Tasmania Talks

News, Tasmania, Taxation | 16^th September 2020

Saul talks to Tasmania Talks’ Aaron Stevens about Reforming Tasmania’s tax system: some options report, 16th Sep 2020.

Covid-19 ends Australia’s 28-year run without a recession. Economy contracts a record 7% in the second quarter

News | 2^nd September 2020

Comment on Australia’s Q2 GDP result in the Financial Times 2nd September 2020

A (very brief) radio piece on ‘Modern Monetary Theory’

Economic Policies, News | 27^th July 2020

Interview with ABC Radio National’s Senior Business Correspondent Sheryle Bagwell about ‘Modern Monetary Theory’ on Monday 21st July.

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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Ominous warnings from sharp falls in business and consumer confidence
Economic Policies, The Australian Economy
16^th April 2026

The Impact of the Middle East Fuel Crisis on Australia’s Civil Engineering Construction Sector
Economic Policies, The Australian Economy
16^th April 2026

Saul on Bloomberg’s Wall St Week about Australia’s Housing Crisis
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Economic Video, Housing, Recent Media Interview
7^th April 2026

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

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

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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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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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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

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The treasurer ‘made the right call’ to recalibrate Coalition’s fiscal strategy

Coronavirus: Victorians fined more than rest of the country

Victoria heavy-handed on COVID fines: Eslake

The tax system should preference new businesses, not small ones

Saul talks to well-known business commentator Peter Switzer

Tassie economist Saul Eslake calls for discussions around tax reform in new report – Tasmania Talks

Covid-19 ends Australia’s 28-year run without a recession. Economy contracts a record 7% in the second quarter

A (very brief) radio piece on ‘Modern Monetary Theory’

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

“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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