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Join us for the latest instalment of TasCOSS’s free, online Policy Conversation series where we will be joined by esteemed economist, Saul Eslake, to unpack the 2024/25 Tasmanian State Budget and how well it aligns with the recommendations contained in his hot-off-the-press Independent Review of State Finances, commissioned by the Government at the request of the Jacqui Lambie Network.
At the event, we will hear from Saul Eslake, who is currently undertaking an Independent Review of State Finances, pursuant to the agreement between the Premier of Tasmania and members of the Jacqui Lambie Network in the aftermath of the 2024 Tasmanian State Election. The Terms of Reference are now available and the review will be published in late August 2024. Find out more about Saul and his work by clicking on the ‘About Saul Eslake’ tab above.
If you have any budget-related questions you’d like answered by Saul, please get in touch with Dr Charlie Burton, Deputy CEO | Director Policy & Advocacy, via email.
Want to learn more about the budget? This event is the perfect accompaniment to the TasCOSS 2024/25 Tasmanian State Budget Briefing on Friday 13 September 2024. If you haven’t already, please register for the TasCOSS budget briefing.
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Registration closes 12noon, Monday 16 September 2024. For more information, please contact Dr Charlie Burton, Deputy CEO | Director Policy & Advocacy, via email.
Register to attend the upcoming Policy Conversation: A Deep Dive into the Budget and the State of Tasmania’s Finances with Saul Eslake
Saul Eslake worked as an economist in the Australian financial markets for more than 25 years, including as Chief Economist at McIntosh Securities (a stockbroking firm) in the late 1980s, Chief Economist (International) at National Mutual Funds Management in the early 1990s, as Chief Economist at the Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) Banking Group from 1995 to 2009, and as Chief Economist (Australia & New Zealand) for Bank of America Merrill Lynch from 2011 until June 2015. In between these last two positions he was Director of the Productivity Growth program at the then newly-established Grattan Institute.
In July 2015, Saul started up his own economics consultancy business, operating out of Hobart, and in April 2016 took up a part-time position as a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Tasmania.
Saul is a member of the Australian Parliamentary Budget Office’s Advisory Panel, the Australian Taxation Office’s ‘Tax Gap’ Advisory Panel, and is on the Advisory Board of Jamieson Coote Bonds, a Melbourne-based specialist bond investment manager. Saul has a first class honours degree in Economics from the University of Tasmania, and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia. In December 2012, he was awarded an Honorary LLD degree by the University of Tasmania. He has also completed the Senior Executive Program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business in New York.