David Pocock
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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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Yeah, very suspicious of their timing.
After three years, the PM announced publicly what they were going to do in terms of a policy response the day before the Easter break.
Then the one day of the year where basically every journalist in Canberra is locked up in a room with budget papers without their phone, they decide, well, we're going to respond to this report.
Respond is generous because they didn't actually respond to any recommendations, they just noted them.
Well, I think they're genuinely embarrassed about it.
And there's a lot of pressure from backbenchers.
It does not do the Murphy Report justice.
As I said, they didn't even respond to individual recommendations.
And what they've said that they're going to do, this partial ban, some money for an ad education campaign, and then cracking down on illegal offshore gambling,
goes nowhere near the central recommendations and is so out of step with what the vast majority of Australians want.
There was a poll that came out the same day they released it.
It was like 77% of Australians back a full gambling ad ban and 80% of Labor voters.
So of course you're just going to try and squeak this thing out during budget lock-up and just hope that there isn't much scrutiny of it.
They've said that they're going to go with a partial ban, which we know partial bans don't work.
The government's own regulator says that partial bans don't work.
In the past where there's been a partial ban, we've seen more ads from gambling companies.
And they've also gone with the option when they released their sort of policy response, there was the underlying analysis from the department that said that a full gambling ad ban is cheaper to enforce and better for Australians, has a larger benefit for Australians.
A partial ban will be harder to enforce.
won't benefit Australians as much.
They've just capitulated, sided with vested interests and not the Australian people.
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