Bernard Salt

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Bernard Salt
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Years active2001 (2001)–present
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Website www.bernard-salt.com.au

Bernard Salt AM is an author, [1] demographer, [2] and since 2002 a regular columnist with The Australian newspaper. Between 2011 and 2019 he was an adjunct professor at Curtin University Business School, and holds a Master of Arts from Monash University. [3] [4]

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A column in the Weekend Australian in 2016 earned him international reputation [2] [5] [6] for supposedly blaming discretionary spending on brunch food as a factor behind declining home ownership among millennials. [7] The column created a furore on social media, [8] [6] [9] and sparked further debate on intergenerational housing affordability in Australia. [10] [11] The phrase "smashed avo" has since become a recurring meme in Australia, [12] and has been repeated overseas. [2]

Salt is known for characterising dividing lines of the middle class, coining the terms "Goat's Cheese Curtain" and "Latte Line" to comment on gentrification in Australia's major cities. [13] [14]

Salt was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2017 Australia Day Honours. [15] He was a partner of KPMG until his retirement in June 2017, and still acts as a special advisor to the firm. [16]

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  1. 1 2 Newbould, Julia (31 July 2020). "Bernard Salt on learning to budget and his best investment decision". Money Magazine. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Corby, Stephen (1 March 2018). "No trust, no job security: Bernard Salt on the uncertain future". InTheBlack.com. CPA Australia . Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "Bernard Salt | Saxton Speakers". Saxton. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  4. ↑ "Tourism Forecasting Committee" (PDF). Minutes. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "Smashed avocado discounted in cafes in wake of controversial saving advice for millennials". ABC News . Australia. 19 October 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  6. 1 2 "How row over mashed avocado toast is dividing Australian generations". BBC World News. 18 October 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  7. ↑ Salt, Bernard (16 October 2016). "Evils of the hipster cafe (web: Moralisers, we need you!)". The Australian . Retrieved 12 August 2024.
  8. ↑ Connaughton, Maddison (18 October 2016). "How Brunch Became a Battleground in Australia's Intergenerational War". Vice . Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  9. ↑ "Middle-Aged Moraliser: ditch the smashed avo". The New Daily . 17 October 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  10. ↑ Razer, Helen (8 October 2016). "The enemy isn't smashed avocado, but it also isn't the baby boomer generation". Crikey . Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  11. ↑ Marsh, Stuart (19 May 2017). "How the humble avocado has become a pin-up for millennial waste". 9Finance . Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  12. ↑ Tovey, Joshephine (18 May 2017). "Why the smashed avo meme refuses to die". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  13. ↑ "Melbourne's 'Latte Line' moving further west". The Age. 19 April 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2026.
  14. ↑ Salt, Bernard (25 February 2016). "Why did the chicken cross the divide? It didn't; not while hipsters have avocados to smash". The Australian . Archived from the original on 30 December 2024.
  15. ↑ "Australia Day 2017 Honours List". Governor-General of Australia. 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  16. ↑ "Bernard Salt, Special Adviser". KPMG. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
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