David Pocock Senate

The result was confirmed this morning weeks after election day. "For the first time, we have an independent voice representing the ACT in federal parliament," ...

It is the first time the ACT has not had a Liberal senator. Rather than a six-year term, they are on the ballot every election. "For the first time, we have an independent voice representing the ACT in federal parliament," Pocock tweeted.

Pocock defeated Liberal Zed Seselja in an historic victory, ending the major party stranglehold on ACT Senate representation.

Through the campaign, I met with a number of people who have loved ones with terminal diagnoses. “NSW, under a Liberal government, is the last state to pass laws that allow voluntary assisted dying. “I think we’ve seen a pretty clear message that people are sick of the big issues being politicised,” he said. “I also know that in politics things change very quickly. “The flow-on effects of that is just so evident now with what’s happening with our Pacific neighbours looking elsewhere. Finance Minister and Labor senator Katy Gallagher easily secured the first ACT upper house seat.

Senator-elect Pocock defeated three-term Liberal Zed Seselja to become one of the ACT's two senators along with Finance Minister Katy Gallagher. Meanwhile, the ...

It is expected Labor will have 26 senators and will need the support of 12 Greens senators and Mr Pocock to pass legislation and motions in the 76-seat upper house from 1 July. But he also said he was committed to being “pragmatic and constructive” on climate policy to move “beyond the insanity when it comes to targets and the lack of climate action.” “We need the big policy settings to unlock, you know, billions of dollars of private investment to actually speed up the transition,” he said. Mr Pocock said voters expected politicians to work constructively towards delivering policies in the “best interests of all of us”. Former Wallaby David Pocock has become the first independent elected to the Senate from the ACT and said his success is evidence of the need to restore trust in politics. Senator-elect Pocock defeated three-term Liberal Zed Seselja to become one of the ACT’s two senators along with Finance Minister Katy Gallagher.

David Pocock's confirmation as a senator of the ACT, ousting Liberal Zed Seselja, came as Liberal Andrew Constance asked the AEC for a recount in the seat ...

His campaign attracted more than 2200 volunteers and he said one of the advantages of being in the ACT was access to policy experts. Labor incumbent Fiona Phillips retained the seat with 50.17 per cent of the vote, ahead of Constance by just 373 votes. “There are some who argue that I should have abandoned some of these values as a way to win more votes,” he said. “Today, the extraordinary movement of people we brought together across the ACT made history,” Pocock said in a statement. We built a policy platform off the back of thousands of conversations about the things that matter.” ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr said the election of Gallagher and Pocock would start a new era in Commonwealth-territory relations and that Seselja had too often used his role to attack the ACT government.