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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And I think there are definitely mechanisms that we can have longer-term thinking, even with a three-year election cycle.
So another one is immigration, which you can't sort of talk about housing without touching on immigration.
Again, we have no plan.
Like, there is no plan here.
We set this arbitrary number through Treasury, it seems, and then there's no actual mechanism of, no, there's very few mechanisms to actually bring that down.
And if we're not willing to have a conversation, okay, how big do we want Australia to be?
What are the skills we need?
What are the trade-offs in terms of infrastructure, impact on the environment?
We're just in this situation where you just have people fear-mongering and blaming immigrants.
So there's definitely ways we can do it.
It's just,
you just need a few more politicians who are willing to actually make it happen.
And I mean, I think all sides of politics have probably been, have fallen into this trap where we've, I think, really had this failure of imagination.
Like, what do we want our future to look like?
And so often we just have people who know what they don't want.
You're against this, you're against that.
Okay, sure, we can see why.
But what is your vision for the future?
And how do we actually sell that?
to people sell a compelling vision and you know it's hard with the 24 hour news cycle with people's attention spans on social media just the way our world is set up for distraction and people sort of just numbing their pain online it's hard but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be trying to do it yeah yeah
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