Government, opposition vote against allowing ‘stranger’ into Senate for maiden speech over concerns of setting precedent
Pocock has invited members from the deaf community to attend his first speech, and said he would continue to pursue changes through the Senate procedure committee, once it is reformed.
“Deaf Australia is deeply concerned and disappointed by the government and opposition’s lack of foresight and regard for accessibility,” she said. In 2008, Democrat senator Natasha Stott Despoja invited an Auslan interpreter to her valedictory speech. Mandy Dolesji signed from the gallery. Stott Despoja had campaigned for better access for the deaf community during her time in the senate, driven by some of the barriers she had seen her mother encounter.
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