Bernard Salt

Bernard Joseph Salt AM is an author and columnist with The Australian and Herald Sun newspapers. He is currently Chairman of the Tourism Forecasting Committee.[1]

Until he retired in June 2017 he was a partner of KPMG and he now works as a special adviser to them.[2]

In 2016 Bernard Salt wrote a column for The Australian in which he blamed the spending habits of Young Australians (Millennials) on avocado toast breakfasts as the cause of their inability to afford to purchase a home.[3]

" I have seen young people order smashed avocado with crumbled feta on five-grain toasted bread at $22 a pop and more. I can afford to eat this for lunch because I am middle-aged and have raised my family. But how can young people afford to eat like this? Shouldn't they be economising by eating at home? How often are they eating out? Twenty-two dollars several times a week could go towards a deposit on a house."

This comment sparked a firestorm of media comment.[4][5][6][7]

Books

  • The Big Shift (2001)
  • The Big Picture (2006)
  • Man Drought (2008)
  • The Big Tilt (2011)
  • Decent Obsessions (2013)

References

  1. ↑ "TOURISM FORECASTING COMMITTEE" (PDF). Minutes. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "Bernard Salt, Special Adviser". KPMG. 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  3. ↑ Salt, Bernard (15 October 2015). "Moralisers, we need you!". www.theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 2017-05-25.
  4. ↑ White, Madeline (2016-10-18). "It's not avocado on toast that's keeping me out of the housing market". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-05-25.
  5. ↑ "Cafes offer discounted smashed avo to help millennials save for house". ABC News. 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2017-05-25.
  6. ↑ "Don't mess with our smashed avo". 2016-10-18. Retrieved 2017-05-25.
  7. ↑ isabeau (2016-10-25). "Smashed avocado on toast is the reason I can't afford a home, according to Bernard Salt". The Real Estate Conversation. Retrieved 2017-05-25.


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