Pocock defeated Liberal Zed Seselja in an historic victory, ending the major party stranglehold on ACT Senate representation.
has emerged as a critical crossbench player in Labor’s upper house negotiations, after the former Wallabies captain defeated Liberal Zed Seselja to take the second ACT Senate seat.
“I think we’ve seen a pretty clear message that people are sick of the big issues being politicised. Rather than actually finding a pragmatic way forward, that serves Australians and that is actually dealing with the big problems we face and turn them into opportunities for all of us, we’ve seen things like climate politicised for the last decade or two.
“NSW, under a Liberal government, is the last state to pass laws that allow voluntary assisted dying. Clearly, it’s ridiculous now that the two territories restrictions are the only jurisdictions that can’t actually debate and legislate on that.
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