Bernard Salt

Bernard Salt

AM
Bernard Salt; AM
Nationality	Australian
Occupations	Author; Demographer; Columnist;
Years active	2001–present
Employers	The Australian; Herald Sun; KPMG; Tourism Australia;
Website	www.bernard-salt.com.au

Bernard Salt 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.

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.

Bernard 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.

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