David Pocock
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640 appearances
7 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5 Jul
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7am · “It’s f***ing bad manners” Bernard Fanning on AI robbing Australian music · 5 Jul 2026
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When I raised this in the Senate, the minister accused me of being reckless.
He went on a personal attack, but didn't actually refute the claim, wouldn't rule it out.
And I'm really concerned.
I think we need to be distinguishing between Australian-owned sovereign data centres.
And there's actually some really good operators who I think do it well.
They have social licence.
They're not using water.
They're doing things well.
I have real concern of this hundreds of billions of dollars of potential investment from what people call the hyperscalers, the big multinationals who look at Australia and let's be honest, just see dollar signs.
And until the government is actually willing to step up and say, hang on, we have something here in Australia that you really want.
And if you are going to come and do business here, you have to, one, actually pay tax here in Australia.
And two, have some very firm guarantees around things like energy usage, water usage, that Australians are not going to have to pay the price of hosting this infrastructure.
Why would I call out the liar, fire the liar, then go and do something like that myself?
Yeah, there's plenty of conversations going on all the time.
I mean, this is something... And you're open to this?
Yeah, I'm always happy to chat about the future of our country.
I genuinely do think it's cowardly to try and slip it out when there's less attention.
And I said it was disrespectful because they didn't even respond to these recommendations.
They just said, yeah, we've noted this and we're doing something else.
I think they should at least tell us why they don't think we need something like a regulator.
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