David Pocock
speaker
640 appearances
7 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5 Jul
David Pocock’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 7 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 3.
Appearances
how much money the government spends you know 70 odd billion dollars plus every single year and if we actually spent that on aussie companies that are developing solutions on ai on on tech platforms and on all these things you actually then start to grow australian companies that can then you know go on and compete internationally so i don't know i think there's huge opportunity um in terms of diversifying our economy and really building an economy that serves
people.
But we've got some huge challenges.
You look at what's happening in AI, what that's going to mean for jobs market, for unemployment, all these sorts of things.
And I think that does take some political courage and leadership to actually look at the problem and start putting things in place now, rather than a few years time us going, oh dear, we really
We really stuffed that one up and where to from here.
I don't know if it's money.
I think money is a part of it, but it's too simplistic.
It's not all of it.
The thing that I've seen is as an independent, I very much view my job as just working for people I represent here in the ACT.
My job is to listen to them, to find solutions, and then just to bang on about them and try and get some change.
Yeah, they should.
And you're a public servant.
You should be serving the public.
I think when it comes to, again, the incentives for decision-making, you have politicians who, yeah, there's political donations, there's vested interests who are both working the inside channel
have good relationships with the various ministers, but then also holding a very big stick and saying, hey, if you tax our gas exports, we're going to come after you.
We've got millions of dollars to run a campaign.
Exactly.
And then I think you've got politicians who kind of look at that and go, well...
We could probably just get away with doing something small here, selling it as a win, and then hopefully the media interest dies down a bit and we move on to the next issue.
Showing 221–240 of 640 · page 12 of 32
← Previous
Next →