In this presentation, to the Salvation Army’s annual Red Shield Appeal Business Breakfast in Hobart on 16th May 2025, Saul Eslake puts an inter-generational lens on the issue of inequality in the distribution of wealth in Australia.

In this InEconomics podcast series Saul Eslake dives into an in-depth analysis of cost-of-living and housing issues, shedding light on untargeted policies and the broader economic implications.

Saul spoke on Saturday morning with Brend Bultitude, mornings presenter on Newcastle Radio 2HD – which also goes out to 47 other stations across regional New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory, via the Super Radio Network – about Australia’s housing crisis, how the policies offered by both major parties at their campaign launches […]

Saul Eslake on ABC News Channel: Election 2025 Housing Policies could push up prices 

Saul spoke with Guardian Australia’s Nour Haydar about the housing policies on offer from the Liberal-National Coalition, Labor and Greens parties at the 2025 election:

Saul Eslake with Laura Tingle discuss this election’s housing affordability agenda:
For the last three years, Australia’s federal opposition has challenged Labor’s management of the economy and budget. But with the latest Newspoll numbers showing trouble for the coalition, the election campaign has taken a dramatic turn. Housing policies from both sides—Labor and the Coalition—are set to shape the future of Australian homeownership. Are these policies truly solving the crisis, or just inflating house prices?

Saul Eslake’s reaction to both major parties’ proposed housing policies on 13th April 2025

Wealth is inevitably more unequally distributed than income. And inequality in the distribution of wealth has increased more than inequality in the distribution of income in Australia (as in many other countries) over the past two decades or so. But what’s particularly striking, at least in Australia, is how inequality in the distribution of wealth […]