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"This Is A National Scandal" | David Pearl
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July 27, 2026
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6:46Now PlayingDavid Pearl and John Anderson warn that the Canberra bureaucracy's fixation on renewables has severely threatened Australia's fuel and food security.
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David Pearl is a former assistant secretary of the Australian Treasury and now a full-time writer and commentator on economic and cultural policy. He spent some three decades in the federal bureaucracy, with postings to the OECD in the late 1990s and a period as the Treasurer's representative in the United States, working across taxation, fiscal management and energy policy. He writes regularly for The Australian and The Spectator Australia and appears frequently on Sky News, where he has been among the most persistent critics of Treasury's modelling of the renewable energy transition.
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