Key independent senator David Pocock, who represents the ACT, received just under $1.7 million, including $856,382 from the Climate 200 group, ahead of last year's federal election, the Australian Electoral Commission's 2021/22 financial disclosure returns from parties, candidates, donors and organisations shows.
Canberra Daily's May 2022 highlights include electing a Federal Labor Government, CW journalist Nick Fuller sat down with the ACT's first ever Independent Senator David Pocock, a Yass Valley Highland bull sold for a six-figure sum, and more.
Affordable housing will be the next parliamentary priority as the federal government releases its promised plan to help ease the crisis, and ACT Senator David Pocock has welcomed the investment.
Sitting in the Senate chamber last Thursday listening to powerful speeches in support from across political lines, it felt like the weight of history was on our side.
The ACT and Northern Territory will be able to make laws on voluntary assisted dying for the first time in a quarter-century in what's being hailed as a historic moment.
It is now six months since the federal election saw independent David Pocock elected to the Senate and he has largely remained true so far to his pledge to look at each issue with a critical eye.
The peak union body has released a poll showing that the majority of Australians back contentious changes to workplace laws to allow multi-employer bargaining.
Working people will be the big winners of a deal that paves the way for Labor's signature industrial relations laws to pass parliament, the prime minister says.
A bill that would allow territories to create laws on voluntary assisted dying will face a Senate vote this parliamentary fortnight, the government promises.
Independent senator David Pocock is calling for the government to split its workplace law amendments, saying there's not enough time to consult on big changes.
