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David Pocock has said he’s open to the idea of independents forming a party to tackle One Nation’s growing influence on the right.

Insiders host David Spears asked the independent senator for ACT if independents forming a party would be a better strategy to tackle One Nation’s rise. Pocock said:

There’s plenty of conversations going on all the time.

I think there’s so many people in politics for the right reasons, and when you’re in there, you want to say, well, how do we actually ensure that people can elect people that are going to come here and really deal with the root causes of the problems that we’re facing, because we haven’t seen that.

How do you be part of changing our country for the better, for me at the moment, that is serving people in the ACT, engaging on each issue, bringing solutions, using whatever power I have in the Senate to actually work on behalf of the people that have have sent me there. As to what that looks like in the future, who knows?

We’ve seen this worrying trend in politics where things are just rammed through parliament rather than actually taking the time to get it right.

And in my experience, in the last term of parliament, when you do take things a bit slower, sure, it may get a bit messier but you end up in a better place because you hear the wide perspective of Australians who are directly impacted, and just more generally what their view is on these changes, and then you can land on a place that you say this actually makes sense for us as a country. Continue reading...