Bernard Salt
{{Short description|Australian demographer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}
{{Use Australian English|date=October 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Bernard Salt
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|size=100%}}
| nationality = Australian
| occupation = {{hlist|Author|Demographer|Columnist}}
| years_active = {{Start date|2001}}{{ndash}}present
| employer = {{hlist|The Australian|Herald Sun|KPMG|Tourism Australia}}
| website = {{URL|https://www.bernard-salt.com.au}}
| footnotes =
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Bernard Salt {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} is an author, demographer, 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.innovation.gov.au/AboutUs/InformationPublicationScheme/Documents/RET%20FOI%20Disclosure%20Log/FOI/2012/Lex2443-3.pdf | title=Tourism Forecasting Committee | work=Minutes | access-date=20 February 2014 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227142220/http://www.innovation.gov.au/AboutUs/InformationPublicationScheme/Documents/RET%20FOI%20Disclosure%20Log/FOI/2012/Lex2443-3.pdf | archive-date=27 February 2014 | df=dmy-all }}
{{See also|Avocado toast#Economy}}
A column in the Weekend Australian in 2016 earned him international reputation for supposedly blaming discretionary spending on brunch food as a factor behind declining home ownership among millennials. The column created a furore on social media, and sparked further debate on intergenerational housing affordability in Australia. The phrase "smashed avo" has since become a recurring meme in Australia, and has been repeated overseas.
Salt was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2017 Australia Day Honours. He was a partner of KPMG until his retirement in June 2017, and still acts as a special advisor to the firm.{{Cite web|url=https://home.kpmg.com/au/en/home/contacts/s/bernard-salt.html|title=Bernard Salt, Special Adviser|date=2017-12-01|website=KPMG|access-date=2018-03-11}}
Books
References
{{Reflist| refs=
| publisher = Saxton
| title = Bernard Salt {{pipe}} Saxton Speakers
| url = https://www.saxton.com.au/speakers/bernard-salt
| access-date = 9 August 2020
}}
| last = Salt
| first = Bernard
| title = Evils of the hipster cafe (web: Moralisers, we need you!)
| url = https://www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-australian-magazine/moralisers-we-need-you/news-story/6bdb24f77572be68330bd306c14ee8a3
| access-date = 12 August 2024
| newspaper = The Australian
| date = 16 October 2016
}}
| title = How row over mashed avocado toast is dividing Australian generations
| date = 18 October 2016
| access-date = 9 August 2020
| author =
| url = https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-37693375
| publisher = BBC World News
}}
| title = Why the smashed avo meme refuses to die
| last = Tovey
| first = Joshephine
| url = https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/why-the-smashed-avo-meme-refuses-to-die-20170518-gw7m6i.html
| date = 18 May 2017
| access-date = 9 August 2020
| newspaper = The Sydney Morning Herald
}}
| title = How the humble avocado has become a pin-up for millennial waste
| last = Marsh
| first = Stuart
| date = 19 May 2017
| access-date = 9 August 2020
| url = https://finance.nine.com.au/personal-finance/how-smashed-avocado-dominated-the-housing-debate/cd35823b-1a01-4c48-99e0-fbdec40e9ed1
| publisher = 9Finance
}}
| title = The enemy isn't smashed avocado, but it also isn't the baby boomer generation
| last = Razer
| first = Helen|author-link=Helen Razer
| date = 8 October 2016
| access-date = 9 August 2020
| url = https://www.crikey.com.au/2016/10/18/razer-bernard-salts-smashed-avocado-silliness/
| website = Crikey
}}
| title = No trust, no job security: Bernard Salt on the uncertain future
| last = Corby
| first = Stephen
| url = https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2018/03/01/social-prophet-bernard-salt
| date = 1 March 2018
| access-date = 9 August 2020
| website = InTheBlack.com
| publisher = CPA Australia
}}
| title = Bernard Salt on learning to budget and his best investment decision
| url = https://www.moneymag.com.au/bernard-salt-hot-seat-demographer-smashed-avo
| last = Newbould
| first = Julia
| date = 31 July 2020
| access-date = 9 August 2020
| magazine = Money Magazine
}}
| title = Smashed avocado discounted in cafes in wake of controversial saving advice for millennials
| date = 19 October 2016
| access-date = 9 August 2020
| url = https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-19/smashed-avocado-australian-cafes-offering-discounts/7945014?nw=0
| work = ABC News|location=Australia
}}
| title = Middle-Aged Moraliser: ditch the smashed avo
| url = https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/good-news/2016/10/17/bernard-salt-smashed-avo/
| work = The New Daily
| date = 17 Oct 2016
| access-date = 9 August 2020
}}
| title = How Brunch Became a Battleground in Australia's Intergenerational War
| last = Connaughton
| first = Maddison
| magazine = Vice
| date = 18 October 2016
| access-date = 9 August 2020
| url = https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/7bawnq/how-brunch-became-a-battleground-in-australias-intergenerational-war
}}
| title = Australia Day 2017 Honours List
| url = https://www.gg.gov.au/australia-day-2017-honours-list
| date = 2017
| access-date = 9 August 2020
| publisher = Governor-General of Australia
}}
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External links
- {{official|https://www.bernard-salt.com.au/}}
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