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

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

And so there's been this...

Obviously, DNA technology has moved so rapidly that now you can actually get screened for a whole bunch of things, and it's very useful to know if you have a family history, if you're predisposed to certain things.

But people weren't doing that because insurance companies would then say, well, you're not insured for that, and you're not insured for that, and your premium is going through the roof.

And so, you know, to the government's credit, again, after a lot of advocacy from some really impressive people and the crossbench pushing hard, they're now banning that.

So, yeah, I think things like that, like there are some good stories.

I've missed a bunch of things.

The battery scheme has been wildly successful.

And, you know, there's a lot of criticism that, well, this is middle class welfare.

But if you actually look at the energy operator, they've had to – they've down –

casted their the amount of gas that they think will need because there's so many batteries coming online and you know gas essentially sets the price of electricity because it's so expensive when when they have to turn the peakers on it's it's it's expensive to do so huge success story they're actually it was so successful cost so much money that they're actually um taking away a whole bunch of the

Sort of reducing the rebates for batteries.

But yeah, solar is a huge opportunity.

And I think that the next challenge and also opportunity for us is how do we ensure that renters, people who live in apartments, people in social housing, that they're also benefiting.

Because we're in this crazy moment in time where in an energy crisis, a whole bunch of wealthy Australians who have rooftop solar, maybe a battery and an EV,

are hardly, you know, feeling the increase in petrol prices, diesel prices, but most of Australians are.

And so how do we say this is actually a cost of living thing now?

We can electrify, certainly in urban areas, our transport system.

It's a massive opportunity when it comes to fuel security, fuel sovereignty.

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