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1.3KBusinessSaul Eslake on Australia’s New Protectionism
Join Saul Eslake for a discussion about how Australia’s prolonged border closures are indirectly providing a short-term boost to spending, and making...
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2.0KBusiness
The Role of Parks in Tasmania’s Economy
As in many other election campaigns, there will be some focus this time on Tasmania’s economy. The concept of ‘rebuilding’ after the...
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2.9KCurrent Affairs
Eslake Report on Building Spirit Replacements
Attached is a report looking at the possible consequences of the Tasmanian Government’s decision – which appears to have been taken as...
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1.3KCoroner & LegalBig Ideas for Tasmania’s future
Today at midday, The Australia Institute Tasmania will launch a new initiative cheekily titled #WTF2050 – What’s Tasmania’s Future? #WTF2050 has asked...
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1.1KEconomy
There’s certainly some good news in this year’s Tasmania Report …
Ted Mead graphic First published December 11 Tasmania’s economy is about $4¼bn (or 8¼%) larger than previously reckoned, because of revisions to...
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1.2KCoroner & Legal
The Quest for Security: Is it rational? has it actually made us safer? At what cost?
First published November 15 Download address to the Royal Society of Tasmania, by Saul Eslake, Independent Economist, and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of...
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1.1KEconomy
Education, productivity and economic performance: Tasmania, then, now and tomorrow
First published 8pm, March 16 I want to thank the members of the Committee of the Launceston Historical Society for inviting me...
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1.1KEconomy
Saul Eslake’s Tasmania Report …
*Pic: Image of Saul Eslake from here Poorer, sicker, older, the least employed and at risk of falling further behind … That...
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1.1KEconomy
‘Cargo cult’ mentality is not an economic development policy
ABC pic I stayed out of the long-running debate over the proposed Gunns pulp mill in the Tamar Valley because, for most...
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1.1KCoroner & Legal
The best way to push bad policy is to wrap it in a ‘security’ blanket
These days, the surest way to gain acceptance for policy proposals that former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry might have called “frankly, bad”...
