Over the past two-and-a-half decades Victoria has gone from being one of Australia’s most prosperous states to being one of its three poorest, on most indicators, and its most heavily indebted. This article, published by the Australian Financial Review on 25th November 2024, explains how and why.

Saul talks to ABC News Channel’s “Afternoon Briefing” presenter Greg Jennett about reports that the Albanese Government may be thinking about changes to negative gearing and/or the capital gains tax discount, and what such changes might mean for housing affordability.

Saul talks to ABC Hobart’s Leon Compton about Tasmania’s State Budget 2024 – 2025 

Saul Eslake spoke to ABC Radio Brisbane’s Afternoons presenter Kate Feeney about solutions to Australia’s housing crisis on 10^th September 2024

Saul Eslake: Australia’s recent inflation experience, what caused it, and how the Government and the Reserve Bank are responding to it

Saul Eslake talks to Turkish TV station TRT World about Australia’s experience in combatting inflation and the prospects for cuts in Australian interest rates – not this year.

Saul Eslake: Notwithstanding assertions from both the left and right of the Australian political spectrum, ‘price-gouging’ and ‘profiteering’ have not been significant contributors to the high inflation which Australia has experienced over the past three years.

Saul Eslake: The Albanese Government’s signature ‘Future Made in Australia’ has a good part, which is about the transition to net zero, and a not-so-good part, which reeks of ‘manufacturing fetishism’ and an obsession with ‘security’ at the expense of other objectives.