Publications
Here you can find articles or essays which I have written and which have been published elsewhere
The housing affordability trap • Inside Story
Housing, Publications | 12th May 2016Saul Eslake | Inside Story | 12th May 2016 Falling home ownership rates are bad for households and bad for the economy, writes Saul Eslake. Governments are starting to respond, but much more can be done“A home of one’s own” – often described as the Great Australian Dream – is not a uniquely Australian aspiration, but for […]
Reflections on the 2016-17 Federal Budget
Economic Policies, Publications | 5th May 2016Saul Eslake | The Conversation | 5th May 2016 This is a longer version of Saul Eslake’s take on the budget, on why negative gearing is still the elephant in the room for the government.Scott Morrison is very keen for his first budget to be viewed as “not just another budget” – to the point of […]
Negative gearing simply a form of ‘tax avoidance’
Housing, Publications, Taxation | 31st March 2016Saul Eslake | The New Daily | 23rd March 2016 In a recent interview with the ABC’s Leigh Sales, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull defended negative gearing as “income tax 101”, by which he went on to explain as “a fundamental principle of tax law and has been forever that you can deduct from your income the […]
Labor’s negative gearing aims echo Coalition housing changes
Housing, Publications, Taxation | 23rd March 2016Saul Eslake | The New Daily | 23rd March 2016 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been vocal in decrying the Labor Opposition’s plans to restrict negative gearing to investors buying new properties, claiming it will lead to a crash in the price of existing housing. But the evidence is against this hypothesis. Over the last five […]
Negative gearing proponents’ claims don’t stack up
Publications, Taxation | 15th March 2016Saul Eslake | The New Daily | 16th March 2016 Negative gearing policy has been a battleground for many years and its emergence as a hot button issue in the upcoming federal election has brought the friends and enemies of the practice into the field once more. Some are warning about “unintended consequences” which they say […]
The case against negative gearing
Publications, Taxation | 18th February 2016Op-ed article published in the Australian Financial Review, 18th February 2016, alongside an opposing viewpoint from Ken Morrison, CEO of the Property Council of Australia
The ‘Tasmania Report’
Publications, Tasmania | 12th December 2015Prepared for the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, December 2015 and Presentation to forums on the ‘Tasmania Report’, 12th December 2015
Reflections on and lessons from a career as an economist
Economics and Economists, Publications | 10th November 2013Article published in ‘Insights’, by the Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne, vol 14, Nov 2013, pp.45-51