‘Over time, I realised, wow, she’s amazing’: David Pocock on love’s slow burn

Former Wallabies captain David Pocock, 34, has often spoken out on issues beyond rugby. Now the environmental activist is running for the Senate. His wife Emma, 34, runs an organisation helping sportspeople to act on climate.

I’d be lying if I said it was love at first sight. We became friends first but, over time, I realised like, wow, she’s amazing. In 2010, we had what I guess was a wedding, with lots of friends and family, in a local park in Perth. But we didn’t want to sign papers when some of our friends didn’t have the same right. At the time, it was just a personal stand but, as the debate around marriage equality heated up, the media saw it as newsworthy.

Initially, she wasn’t sold on the idea of me running for the Senate [as an independent in the ACT]. She knows just how gruelling it is – and she’s busy with her work, heading FrontRunners – but we had a lot of conversations and decided it was well worthwhile; an opportunity to contribute to the community and improve our democracy.Emma is very bubbly, very comfortable in her own skin. She knows she’s good at a lot of things.

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