Talk about a massive career change!

Former Wallabies captain David Pocock won one of the ACT Senate seats as an independent yesterday.

The independent won the seat alongside Labor’s Katy Gallagher, unseating Liberal Zed Seselja.

Since the ACT and Northern Territory first elected senators in 1975, every election has produced the same pairing – one Labor senator and one Liberal senator in each jurisdiction.

That’s changed now as Mr Pocock is the first territory senator outside of the two major parties.

David Pocock admitted to Deborah Knight, his political career is going to be a “huge challenge”.

“It seems like we’ve seen a bunch of independents and people in politics who don’t have a political background be able to talk about the issues,” he said.

“I was asked by a number of people in Canberra last year if I was going to run as an independent… after giving it some thought it seemed like a great opportunity to represent a community I love.”

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