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

Like if people are just wage slaves trying to pay the rent and then all of a sudden the thing that they've gone to uni, racked up a huge hex debt to become and worked their way up and now they're just out of work and there's no other options, what do we do as a society?

So I don't know, looking at UBI, incredibly expensive.

And again, you have to ask,

If these jobs are being essentially automated, whether that's with advanced manufacturing and robotics or in the information economy, white collar workers, where does the revenue come from?

And you guys would have spoken to...

the sort of tech optimists who say, oh, well, there'll be just so much more money in the economy and all these sorts of things.

I don't know.

I'm not an expert in this field, obviously, but sort of take a keen interest in it and listen to a lot of different people talking about it.

I think it's a massive challenge we're not planning enough for.

Well, the thing I've seen is that pressure works.

Okay.

In the last four years, we saw the government make changes to the stage three tax cuts, which I think given where we're at as a country, would have been a really regressive move in terms of our tax system, giving these huge cuts to the wealthiest Australians and nothing down the bottom.

And they, after a lot of pressure from the community and from independents and the crossbench, they ended up changing their tune and I think making them a lot fairer.

Housing, we're hearing that there could be something in the budget.

I think we've got to keep that pressure up over the next couple of weeks.

So pressure definitely works as to an area where I think things are going great guns.

Well, I think there's been some really welcome investments in health care, but still such a long way to go.

Actually, here's a good one.

And this was a big effort from so many people over many, many years.

The government is banning the discrimination against people who get a DNA test and health insurers discriminating against them on that.

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