In preparing to make his first speech, David Pocock asked if he could have an Auslan interpreter alongside him on the floor of the Senate. But he said both major parties denied his request — a decision he labelled 'disappointing'.
One of the so-called "teal independents", he had campaigned on a range of issues, including action on climate change and territory rights.
"Today, the systems that sustain life on earth are at the brink of collapse. The climate as we know it is breaking down and the impacts are now being felt with distressing regularity. "This is not the first time the parliament has tried to repeal the Andrews Bill. But I hope it will be the last."Senator Pocock says "for too long we have been neglected, ridiculed, looked down on or flat out ignored".
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