The social media post Australia's youngest Senator did not want you to see - as her bold plan for the country's future is revealed

Daily Mail​

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Australia's youngest-ever senator has deleted a 'cringeworthy' video documenting a day in her life at parliament, which was posted just a day after she outlined her bold agenda for the country's future.
Charlotte Walker, 21, who made headlines last week after trading barbs with One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson, shared a reel on Instagram documenting the final day of her first week in parliament on July 24.
The video, which was set to the Black Eyed Peas song 'Imma Be', featured time-stamped clips of the Senator for South Australia as her day unfolded.
These included a clip under her duvet after waking up at 5.27am, various interviews with multiple broadcasters through the morning, footage of her running through the halls of parliament to vote at 4pm and flying home to SA at 6pm.
'Day in my life, first week done,' she captioned the 16-second clip.
But it was met with a chorus of ridicule and anger on social media, with many users branding it 'cringe', 'embarrassing' and evidence of taxpayers' money being wasted.
'An inexperienced young women who's never held a real down job as an adult is now a federal government Senator with the responsibilities of lawmaking in the federal Parliament,' one sawid.
'Why do Aussies keep electing unelectable people to parliament? You won't trust a 21-year old to a Company's Board of Director or to a Supreme Court's Justice Bench as they don't have the capabilities, experience and depth to handle it but they can be elected to Parliament?'
'This is so wrong. Parliament isn't some instagram hangout place, it's where the laws of the nation are discussed and legislated impacting an entire country's citizenry.'
The criticism seems to have stung as the short clip has now vanished from Senator Walker's Instagram profile.
The Daily Mail approached Senator Walker for comment over its removal.
The clip was originally posted the day after Senator Walker's maiden speech in parliament where she pitched herself as a voice for the younger generations.
The Senator for South Australia said that Labor's landslide election win in May was the expression of 'the core Australian value of a fair go'.
She said that Labor would deliver a 'fair go' for Australians in the areas of housing, education and climate change - underlining the government's commitment to net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 as a key pledge.
It was on this issue that Senator Walker clashed with Pauline Hanson, who had tabled a motion in the upper house to abandon the target altogether, claiming it will 'destroy jobs and the Australian economy.'
'Power bills are out of control. Manufacturing is being wiped out. And ordinary Australians are paying the price, while out-of-touch politicians and inner-city idealists push fantasy policies they'll never have to live under,' Hanson said.
'We are being led by fools. Shame on every politician who continues to push this madness. I will not stand by while Australia is driven into the ground.'
But Senator Walker slammed the move, accusing the One Nation founder - who is 50 years her senior - of lacking knowledge of the subject.
'All I can say is, are you kidding?' Senator Walker said.
'The motion put forward on net zero indicates a severe lack of knowledge and a complete disregard for the future of our generation, the future of our country.
'Without a net zero target, there will be no Australian farmers, businesses or industries to support us.
'Net zero is waking up to a reality that Senator Hanson has not been able to grasp. In fact, Senator Hanson seems to be hellbent on exacerbating all of the consequences of climate change.'
In turn, Senator Hanson lashed her younger colleague, claiming it was she who failed to understand what net zero really means.
'She's no sooner out of bloody university and out of her nappies than she's telling me I don't know what the hell I'm talking about when I've been on the floor of parliament for the last nine years,' Senator Hanson told SKy News.
'I don't take any notice of her, who's just trying to make her place in this parliament - and congratulations. But don't come in thinking that you're going to tell me what I know or what I don't know when I have been dealing with this for many years.'
Senator Walker underlined her unwavering commitment to tackling climate change in her maiden speech, claiming that she spoke for the younger generation who would be most affected by a heating planet.
'The vast majority of young Australians do not talk about climate sceptics versus climate believers,' she said.
'To us, climate change is not a matter of faith or belief; it is purely a matter of hard fact, and this government is determined to do everything we can to meet our goals of the Paris Agreement, including holding the increase in average temperatures to well below two degrees Celsius of warming.
'This government's net zero plan is delivering on the legislated target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.'
She also outlined how Labor planned to tackle the 'cost-of-living monster that everyone my age talks about housing' by allowing people to buy a home with just a five per cent deposit.
'Saving a 20 per cent deposit to get into homeownership whilst paying rent is an unscalable mountain for most of us,' she said.
'The median home price in Australia today is $820,000. Five per cent of that is $41,000. The last time $41,000 covered the 20 per cent deposit for a median home was in 2002. I wasn't even born in 2002.
'The day this policy was announced, before the election, my partner and I looked at each other and said: "We might have a chance now".'