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7828EconomyBig 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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6325EconomyThere’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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637InternationalThe 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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6317EconomyEducation, 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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5134EconomySaul 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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6834Economy‘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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614EconomyThe 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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461EconomyLoal 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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6313EconomyProspects 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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6723EconomyTasmania 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...
