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.
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But you've just got to look around.
How many different crises do you hear us talking about?
We've got a cost of living crisis, a housing crisis, environmental crisis.
You're in a crisis because you haven't actually dealt with the problems that are coming at you and you just put them off.
And I think it's that short-term decision-making that has just compounded to the point where a lot of Australians are... I guess there's not just a declining trust in politics and institutions, which I think in and of itself is a problem, but there's this real anger that I'm picking up from people.
So...
yeah we can change things i mean lobbying reform is is one thing i've been pushing hard i think there should be far more transparency around who has access to parliament house who ministers meet with that should really be the sort of the bare minimum so we can actually make our own minds up who did you consult on that policy who had access and then we look at the the legislation say well of course it's skewed towards you know property investors you didn't talk to anyone who's
who's struggling to get into the market or even groups that are representing people who are homeless.
So yeah, lots of challenges there, but on all those things, there are clear solutions and it's just getting to the point where the major parties are willing to embrace them.
And sure, it'll be uncomfortable, there'll definitely be some losers, but I think ultimately our democracy will be stronger.
Yeah, I mean, three-year election cycles don't make it easy, but we can definitely make better decisions.
I mean, one example, we currently don't have a national housing plan.
There's no plan.
We just have a target and a Housing Australia Future Fund and a 5% deposit scheme and a whole bunch of...
policies which you know you can debate the merits of each of those policies and i'm sure most of them are doing some good i think the housing australia future fund is a is a something that's going to you know really contribute to um social and affordable housing but there's no overarching plan there's no long-term plan saying hey our objective is actually to make what can we agree on we can probably all agree that we want housing to be accessible and affordable
How do we do that?
Each side of politics is going to have their different way of doing that.
But I've got a bill in the Senate that would force the government of the day to have a 10-year national housing and homelessness plan.
tell us what you're going to do over the next 10 years.
Sure, two years, it's good to know what you're going to do in two years, but I want to know what your long-term vision here is.
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