Tasmanian mid-year-budget review

Saul Eslake ANZ Bank Tasmania is the only state expecting to incur net operating deficits in its general government sector over the...

Whatever happened to the productivity revolution

Saul Eslake The second possibility is suggested by the torrent of productivity-stifling legislation and regulation imposed during the current decade with the...

Recession? What Saul Eslake says

Sue Neales, Mercury But ANZ chief economist Saul Eslake said there was “almost no way” the forecast economic growth rate of 3.5...

Budget: The Eslake Analysis

By Saul Eslake Here is ANZ Bank Chief Economist Saul Eslake’s assessment of the 2006-07 State Budget brought down yesterday by Tasmanian...

The Tasmanian economy

STATE details from today’s (March 1) December quarter national accounts show that the Tasmanian economy is still growing faster than the national...

A new chip off the block

THE Tasmanian Government has appointed ANZ chief economist Saul Eslake as chairman of the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board. Saul, of course, is...

Sustaining Tasmania’s economic renaissance

SAUL ESLAKE: It’s not often that a finanical markets economist publicly advocates increased government spending but in this particular instance I’m happy...

Tasmania’s economic future

Tasmania’s revival

MAINLAND commentators have become accustomed to dismissing Tasmania’s economy as a basket case. Indeed, so bad have many of the statistics on...

The Budget: An analysis