David Pocock

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640 appearances 7 recordings 5 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5 Jul

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Equity Mates Investing Podcast · A better Australia is possible - David Pocock on Gas Taxes, Property & Gambling · 4 May 2026 podcast

I just found the ads annoying.

It wasn't something I was that into.

I'd seen the impact on a few teammates over the years who'd had problems.

But it was kind of just this thing that I thought, well, this just doesn't sit that well.

But I didn't really know too much about it.

And over the past four years,

You actually get to sit down with the experts who are studying this and see, one, the impact it's having on young Australians.

These companies advertise because it works.

We're now in a situation where we have normalized gambling, sports betting, for a whole generation of Australians.

75% of young people now just think this is just how you enjoy sport, is you have to place a bet to enjoy it.

And then, yeah, I guess seeing the impact on families that addiction has and then you talk to people who are trying to deal with it and they say it's basically impossible because you're just flooded with ads.

You think you're dealing with it and then you get that inducement, that free bet, and you're back on it.

And some of the saddest meetings I've had are with young people who've lost a brother.

to gambling and you just realise this is just having such a huge human toll on people across the country and it's something because there's so much shame attached to it like you watch the ads this is something that should be very fun it's social you're apparently with your mates you're winning the reality is you're scrolling your phone at 2am chasing chasing a loss trying to turn it around on an obscure sport that you would never otherwise watch

And so, you know, I've had so many mostly young men pull me aside over the last couple of years at events and say, hey, can I talk to you privately?

And just say, like, thanks for what you're doing.

I'm finding this really hard.

And I can't really talk to my mates about it because I feel so ashamed that I've got the problem.

So, you know.

parliament had this big inquiry it was a landmark report that made 31 recommendations the central one was banning all gambling ads because they looked at all the evidence partial bands don't work in the past when you they tried partial bands there were even more ads and so how does that oh the ads were on like other platforms yeah just different times but you know the industry just finds a way around it yeah

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