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David Pocock
Senator · Independent
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Senate Environment and Communications References Committee - Sydney, NSW (part 2 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 22 September 2026
Senator Pocock: Q: access to US frontier models and capability uplift
“Thank you, Chair. Thank you very much for your time and the work that you're doing. Dr. Kay, asking the government departments why we need these data centers here, the training ones, they say because we need access to the…”
Watch from 12:10Senator Pocock: Q: access to US frontier models and capability uplift
“The second part they say is that if we get training data centers here, then we have an uplift in capability with, you know, these big AI companies potentially basing teams here. But it seems like that's only going to…”
Watch from 14:16Government focus on Big Tech vs local frontier capability
“And why do you think there's such a disconnect between researchers and industry that I hear from here in Australia who say we can absolutely build capability here, in fact we've got some amazing companies who are working in this…”
Watch from 16:32
Senate Environment and Communications References Committee - Sydney, NSW (part 1 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 22 September 2026
Compute sovereignty, diesel backups and workforce impacts
“Thank you, Chair. Thank you for being here in in person, Mr. McGilp. Just looking at information provided to the committee, AirTrunk stresses that onshore data center infrastructure gives Australia the domestic compute necessary to develop, train, adapt, and deploy…”
Watch from 2:14:34Compute sovereignty, diesel backups and workforce impacts
“Okay, so Australians will essentially just have to bid against the multinationals. How much corporate tax did AirTrunk pay in the last financial year? Maybe on notice, you know, obviously payroll tax etc. every large business is paying, but what…”
Watch from 2:17:05Compute sovereignty, diesel backups and workforce impacts
“Okay. So it's a significant, it's a decent amount of diesel. And so what happens if things do go badly, the grid trips out and you've got to run diesel generators for days? What about communities around you if you're…”
Watch from 2:23:08
Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (part 2 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 18 September 2026
AI incident reporting and Five Eyes information sharing
“Thank you, Chair. And thank you for your time. Really good to, to see you. Data centers, especially kind of large ones that we're, we're talking about. We talked about this, you know, two gigawatt plus one going in Queensland…”
Watch from 23:25Data centres as wartime targets and secret Google cloud
“Could clearly be the target of any future conflict. Is Defence mapping this out? What contingencies are being put in place?”
Watch from 23:41Sovereign AI capability, reliance on US tech and investment
“We hear a lot of talk about the need for sovereign capability. Our secret cloud is provided by Google. Is that a concern? Like, why aren't we seeing more investment in Australian sovereign capability?”
Watch from 24:38
Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (part 1 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 18 September 2026
DEWR: labour market monitoring and skills/OSH responses
“Thank you chair. Thanks for your your time here this morning. Uh what work is the department or Jobs and Skills Australia doing at at monitoring uh AI-related job losses here in Australia?”
Watch from 33:01DEWR: labour market monitoring and skills/OSH responses
“Mhm. And in terms of monitoring how are you actually collecting data from um employers? One of the things I've seen is a number of big employers offshoring jobs um recently and one of my concerns is it's obviously easier…”
Watch from 34:30DEWR: labour market monitoring and skills/OSH responses
“Is that a problem and a vulnerability given the exponential nature of this technology, that it may seem like nothing's happening and then you hit this tipping point where a whole bunch of jobs can be automated and we're not…”
Watch from 35:53
Senate Chamber (part 2 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 17 September 2026
Pocock motion: comprehensive lobbying reform and transparency
“Thank you very much Acting Deputy President. I move the motion. When I was first elected to this place by the people of the ACT to be a senator for the ACT I was shocked at our lobbying laws and…”
Watch from 2:41:12
Senate Chamber (part 1 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 17 September 2026
Further support for no caps and move to vote on Lambie bill
“Senator David Pocock. Thank you, Acting Deputy President. I rise in support of Senator Lambie's bill, and I want to start by thanking Minister Keogh for the roundtable last night, where he heard directly from Canberra veterans about their concerns…”
Watch from 45:50Ballot for Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence: crossbench seat
“Well, thank you, President, and thank the Senate for this opportunity. One of the criticisms of the AI industry is that it still remains overwhelmingly white and male. And so the irony is not lost on me that the Senate…”
Watch from 2:33:22Selection of Bills report and Red Lines Package referral dispute
“Thank you President. Well the Red Lines package that was introduced by crossbenchers comes out of civil society. It comes out of Australians who want our Parliament to say that we are going to make a very firm commitment in…”
Watch from 2:52:49
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