David Pocock
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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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So seeing this proposal, yeah, it seems to fly in the face of, one, what all the evidence says, what the experts say, and then community sentiment.
Like, you know, this could be a huge win for the government to come out and say, we're going to do this, and then we're going to find a way to actually plug the gap when it comes to commercial, you know, broadcasters, free-to-air television.
There's got to be a way to actually make that business model sustainable and not have it rely on gambling advertising.
No, not that one.
I think if you were looking at the figures the other day, I think it's around 10% of advertising on free-to-air.
And so it's not insignificant.
Something like a levy on gambling, 1.5%, I think would more than cover that.
I get the argument from sports.
They want sponsors.
They want to be able to invest in their game.
But when it comes to the AFL and NRL now, my understanding is that they now have a business model where they're actually getting kickbacks.
They're getting a percentage of bets placed.
And I think that's quite worrying for the direction of sport.
And this was something that the Murphy Report actually went into in depth and said, we really risk turning sport, which so many Australians love for all the right reasons, building community, challenging yourself, being part of something bigger than yourself, just turning it into an opportunity to flog off.
An industry that can be harmful.
So there are definitely ways to plug those gaps and actually deal with the ads and critically also the inducements.
Like that was kind of the most urgent recommendation from the Murphy Report and the government, as I understand it, isn't even dealing with that.
Not interested.
So one of the recommendations of the Murphy report was to have a national regulator.
As you said, everyone flocks to the NT and it's, it's very loose.
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