David Pocock, the former Wallabies captain turned climate campaigner, will run as an independent for the Senate in the ACT at next year’s federal election.
Former Wallabies captain David Pocock has long campaigned on the fringes of politics as a climate warrior, his activist credentials cemented in 2014 when he was arrested for chaining himself to a tractor in protest against a new coal mine in northern NSW.
The 33-year-old rugby union great, who played 83 tests for the Wallabies and captained the side in 2012, hung up his professional boots last year, resolving to dedicate his time to fighting for more ambitious action on climate change.“We’ve got all the technology we need. We just need the political will,” he says, “But we can change that and we can change it really quickly if we have more independents in there who are actually pushing for a better future.
“The reason I’m running as an independent [is] to be able to represent my community and not have to toe a party line that’s out of step with what they want,” he says.
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