Fix Tasmania's education, employment issues or risk continual productivity decline: Eslake

By Matt Maloney
Updated December 14 2016 - 6:06pm, first published 6:00pm
Economist Saul Eslake outlines the state's grim prospects at a luncheon in Launceston on Wednesday.
Economist Saul Eslake outlines the state's grim prospects at a luncheon in Launceston on Wednesday.

Tasmania needs to fix its education and employment problems fast or else it risks slipping into a productivity rate 40 per cent behind the rest of the country in 20 years’ time, leading economist Saul Eslake says.

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