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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And the crossbench is certainly going to be putting a lot of pressure on both major parties.
Well, we're already seeing it there.
What's happened in the past is that when you block off certain times or one type of media, that money just shifts and you just see so much more.
And we've just been so saturated with gambling ads.
that three out of four young people now think that gambling is just a normal part of enjoying sport.
And as a former professional athlete, I've benefited so much from sport.
It was such a big part of my life.
I learned so much about myself, had so many great opportunities and absolutely loved it.
And one of the things that Peter Murphy warns about in her forward to the, you win some, you lose more report, was that we really risk detracting what
from what sport is actually about we are undermining this thing that so many australians love by gambling attaching itself to sport so you know there's a lot of there's a lot at stake here and that's exactly why we need a phased in gambling ad ban
you know, losses in revenue for free-to-air, for grassroots sport.
We're a very wealthy country.
We could slug these companies with a 1.5% levy or something more than compensate that.
Or we could just say this is a public health issue and we're going to fund that in other ways through the transition.
It matters because this is, in the words of Peter Murphy, a predatory industry.
They will take any loophole they can.
And the current regulator, ACMA...
clearly, I think, doesn't have the teeth to deal with it.
And there's just so much that actually falls out of the scope of current regulation.
And the government's own response talks about all these emerging forms of gambling online and how they need to be regulated.
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