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Saul Eslake

The west is having its iron ore cake - and eating it too

Western Australia depended on wealthy eastern states before the iron ore boom. But the largesse won’t be flowing the other way around.

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Saul Eslake is former chief economist of ANZ Bank and of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Australia, and is now principal of Corinna Economic Advisory based in Hobart.

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