David Pocock

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Equity Mates Investing Podcast · A better Australia is possible - David Pocock on Gas Taxes, Property & Gambling · 4 May 2026 podcast

There we go.

It's a once a year type scenario.

Well, I sometimes get asked, you know, after I think I've been a politician for four years now, almost four years, like, what do you think about politics in Australia?

And I share the frustration of so many Australians.

And you sit in there and some days you just think, what on earth are we doing in this place?

But I'm probably more hopeful about politics than when I went in there because I

One, we have the foundations of a great democracy.

We've got an electoral system, which I think is the envy of the world with the AEC, how independent they are, and just, I guess, compulsory voting and how Australians just turn up and vote and get it done.

But we obviously have some challenges, I think, in terms of the incentives of short-term decision-making, decisions being made for three years for the next election, rather than saying, OK, how do we make decisions that are good for the next 10, 20, 30 years?

And also...

I guess the lack of courage at times to actually deal with the root causes of problems.

And I'm sure we'll get into some of this, but there's so many of these sort of small patch job solutions that politicians or parties think they can get away with and really sell it as a big win, but not deal with it.

But I think more and more Australians are frustrated with that.

And I think that's what really gives me hope is you're seeing people engage like they haven't in the past and actually say, well, hang on, this doesn't make sense.

And I'm going to go and look for an independent or a minor party.

And I think that's a really powerful message to the major parties.

I think Australia is a great country.

This place could be incredible if we actually backed Australians who are working on the big challenges we face and also just looked at challenges and sort of say, well, what is the opportunity in this?

How do we...

you know genuinely try and turn this around in our favor and you know i think a lot of that comes down to investing in things like research and development like we've hit a record low of rnd as a percentage of gdp that does not bode well for the future um so it's things like that backing aussie companies you know i don't know if we're going to talk about procurement at all it's it's kind of seems like this boring thing but over the past few years i've really enjoyed getting stuck in the weeds of procurement and just seeing

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