SAUL ESLAKE

Economist

SAUL ESLAKE

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

The Australian Economy


Australia hasn’t had a recession – in the widely used sense of two or more consecutive quarters of negative real GDP growth – since 1991. Since then, Australia’s ranking among nations in terms of per capita GDP has risen from 22nd to, in the last four years, either 12th or 13th, behind only the United States, Norway, Switzerland and a number of other smaller states which are predominantly either oil producers or financial centres. Australia’s economic performance reflects a combination of luck and management – the relative importance and quality of which have varied significantly from time to time. Monitoring the performance of and analysing the prospects for the Australian economy has been the major part of my ‘day job’ since I completed my university degree in 1979.

The 2017-18 Budget

Economic Policies, The Australian Economy | 11th May 2017

Presentation to a post-Budget breakfast hosted by accounting firm Moore Stephens in Melbourne on 11th May 2017


Outlook for the World Economy and its Implications for Australia

The Australian Economy, The Global Economy | 4th April 2017

Presentation to FactSet Investment Processing Symposium, Sydney, 4th April 2017


Key issues for the global and Australian economies in 2017

The Australian Economy, The Global Economy | 7th February 2017

Presentation to the International CEO Forum – Melbourne, 7th February 2017


The Importance of productivity as a driver of the Victorian economy

Productivity, The Australian Economy | 24th November 2016

Presentation to Members of Victoria’s Parliament, Melbourne, 25th November 2016


A Country Executive Guide to the Australian and New Zealand Economies

The Australian Economy | 15th November 2016

Webinar presentation hosted by the CEO Forum Group for executives of multi-national companies with a presence in Australia and New Zealand, on 15th November 2016


The Future of the Australian Economy

The Australian Economy | 12th October 2016

A look at Australia’s economic performance over the past 25 years, where the Australian economy is today, and how well placed the Australian economy is to weather some of the growing external and domestic risks on the horizon … The second annual NATSEM address hosted by the University of Canberra’s National Centre for Social & […]


The Economy – Challenges and Opportunities

The Australian Economy | 31st August 2016

Presentation to the Self-Storage Association of Australasia’s 2016 Convention in Melbourne, on 31st August 2016 – covering the global, Chinese, Australian and New Zealand economies with a focus on population flows and housing


An Economic Update

The Australian Economy | 29th August 2016

Presentation to the annual Shareholders’ Dinner of Norman Disney and Young, an engineering construction firm, in Adelaide on 29th August 2016 – covering Australia and New Zealand, with a particular focus on commercial construction


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Saul Eslake online presentation


“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


“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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