Why David Pocock was booted from parliament’s sports club
The Australian Parliament Sports Club has attracted plenty of unwanted attention lately – for registering as a lobbying group, accepting sponsorship from the gambling lobby, and for kicking out ex-Wallabies captain David Pocock for having a problem with all that.
Daanyal Saeed is Crikey’s media reporter and he broke the original story.
Since then, he’s followed it up – revealing that, despite Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s insistence he wasn’t at all involved, he had spoken at one of the club’s events, and chronicling the swift de-registration from the lobbying register that came after scrutiny of the club.
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Today, Saeed takes us through all the biggest developments and tells us why the ACT senator isn’t rejoining the club – despite being welcomed back.
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