David Pocock

David Pocock is an Australian politician and former professional rugby union player. He was born in 1988 in Messina, South Africa, on a family farm that lay across the border in Zimbabwe, grew up in Gweru, and moved with his family to Brisbane as a teenager after the Zimbabwean land seizures. He played primarily as an openside flanker, appeared for the Western Force and the Brumbies in Super Rugby, where he was vice captain of the Brumbies, and played for the Australia national team, including at the 2015 Rugby World Cup, where he scored in the final against New Zealand. After retiring he worked as a conservationist and social justice advocate. In the 2022 Australian federal election he ran as an independent and won an Australian Capital Territory Senate seat from the Liberal incumbent Zed Seselja.