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We Were Warned

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In 2017, I left the ABC and walked down the corridor in Parliament House to begin again as political editor for Nine News.
This was the first story I filed for Nine. At the time, my new bosses were a little bemused by it, but they humoured me.
I don’t claim credit for the insight. I was convinced by the power of an argument I had heard from a man I had come to know well, former fighter pilot and retired Air Vice-Marshal John Blackburn AO.
In 2014, Blackburn authored a report for the NRMA warning that Australia’s fuel reserves were running on empty. This fossil fuel–rich island nation had…

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