Tasmanian Times
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. No price is too high for the privilege of owning yourself.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. No price is too high for the privilege of owning yourself.
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1928EconomyBig 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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1725EconomyThere’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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187InternationalThe 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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1717EconomyEducation, 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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1534EconomySaul 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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1834Economy‘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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154EconomyThe 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”...
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101EconomyLoal Government reform and the Tasmanian Economy
Saul Eslake, Director, Productivity Growth Program, the Grattan Institute has been asked, along with Jude Munro (former CEO of the Brisbane and...
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1213EconomyProspects for the global, Australian and Tasmanian economies
Launceston Country Club, 9th August 2011: Presentation to a luncheon hosted by the Launceston Chamber of Commerce Download: Launceston_CofC_Aug_2011.pdf
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1623EconomyTasmania is not Greece … nor is it America
There’s an internet site (http://economicscience.net/content/JokEc) which lists a series of jokes about economists, which I sometimes refer to when preparing for a...