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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This will have huge ramifications for our future as a country.
And so we've absolutely got to tackle the...
The tax system, we've got to actually make sure that it's not skewed towards investment.
And, yeah, that's something that the parliament hasn't been willing to do for a long time now.
But I think, again, community attitudes have changed.
And even talking to older Australians who have done very well from property, they're now saying, well, what does this mean for my kids, my grandkids?
We've got to shift this.
And, yeah, I don't think...
Anyone wants to live in a country where you can only own a house if you have wealthy parents.
In the last parliament, I did some work with Senator Jackie Lambie, kind of thinking through both the need for change and then the politics around it, and we got a bunch of options costed by the Parliamentary Budget Office.
And the option we landed on was...
removing the capital gains tax discount on existing stock but maintaining a paired back, I think, 25% for new builds.
The argument that always gets used by the building industry and by both sides of politics is, oh, if there's no capital gains tax discount, you'll kill new builds, new supply.
And so I think you can deal with that actually saying, listen, we're actually going to use our tax system to incentivise supply
But we're not going to have a situation with existing buildings and suburbs that time after time after time, first home buyers get outbid by property investors.
Because the property investor knows that if it's not positive, they can just negatively gear it.
And then at the end, they get their capital gains tax discount.
I think there's ways to turn it around.
I'd love to see that happen.
We're hearing that there might be something around the capital gains tax discount.
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