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 it definitely played a part in when I got asked to run for the Senate.
It was one of the things I thought a lot about.
I love this country so much.
It's given me so much.
I moved here as a 14-year-old.
And I'm so grateful for those opportunities.
And I think with...
With any country, if you truly think it's a great country, then you've got to hold it to a high standard.
And yeah, I've really enjoyed contributing in a very different way as a politician and serving people in the ACT.
We're one of the biggest gas exporters in the world.
Every time the price of gas goes up internationally, we feel poor.
Our power bills go up.
And if you look at the revenue, we really don't get a huge amount from it, particularly from our offshore LNG.
And this is a bit of a quirk in history and different decisions from governments in the past where when it comes to gas, say in Queensland, the Queensland government puts a royalty on it.
You can argue whether it's high enough or not.
But for offshore LNG, there's no royalty.
And so they've...
When they hit oil in Bass Strait, they set up the petroleum resource rent tax, which has actually worked pretty well for oil in the Bass Strait.
We've done pretty well from it.
When it comes to gas, it just does not work.
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