CBD brought word on Monday that ACT Senator David Pocock decided to go full whistleblower and create an opt-in register for MPs to declare any lobbyists and other friends they’d sponsored for a Parliament House access pass.

The headline act was Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar, who as CBD reported, got in thanks to teal independent MP Allegra Spender. We hear that’s because of Farquhar’s role as chair of the rudderless Tech Council of Australia. Spender chairs the Parliamentary Friends of Innovation and Start-ups and sponsored Farquhar’s pass in that capacity.

A few other names on the Pocock list piqued our interest. The jacked former Wallabies captain granted access to Instagram talking head Konrad Michalski , better known as Punters Politics, who was a better of a darling at

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