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Barbara Pocock
Senator for South Australia

Housing now an investor’s playground

20 February, 2026 - New analysis today by ACOSS shows property investors are buying almost twice as many homes as first-home buyers, thanks to government tax br...

Housing Affordability Is a Political Choice, And We Can Choose Better

19 February, 2026 - Housing Affordability Is a Political Choice, And We Can Choose Better By Senator Barbara Pocock   Australia is in the grip of ...

Wages lag behind soaring costs of housing and healthcare

18 February, 2026 - New quarterly ABS data released today show wages are not keeping up with inflation, as yet another bank, NAB, announces a quarterly profit o...

Bank profits spike amid housing crisis

12 February, 2026 - In the midst of a housing crisis, the big banks’ obscene profits have been taken directly out of the pockets of mortgagees and renters. T...

Lending data shows the worst of Australia’s housing crisis is yet to come

11 February, 2026 - New Cotality data shows rental affordability is at a record low as rents rise 2.5 times faster than wages, while ABS data today shows invest...

CGT discount now a quarter trillion dollar rort

6 February, 2026 - New figures show the Capital Gains Tax discount will blow a quarter-trillion dollar hole in the budget over the next decade. Parliamentary...

First home buyers, latest casualties of a rotten revolving door

5 February, 2026 - In the same week Australian households were told their mortgage repayments will go up, they have also learnt who the real beneficiaries of go...

Labor’s response to consultancy inquiries woefully inadequate

5 February, 2026 - After taking years, the federal government has finally responded to the recommendations of two parliamentary inquiries into the consultancy s...

Victoria Barracks sale shows Labor not serious on housing

4 February, 2026 - Labor's planned fire sale of Victoria Barracks sites ignores the obvious solution: converting this prime publicly-owned urban land into socia...

Labor must not leave inflation fight to RBA

1 February, 2026 - Australians are bracing for another interest rate rise because Labor has turbo-charged the housing crisis and refused to tackle corporate pri...

Labor rewards property investors with billions while public housing waitlists grow

30 January, 2026 - New data from ACOSS today shows the Federal Government spends more on housing investor tax breaks ($12.3bn in 2025) than on social housing, h...

Housing crisis fuelling intergenerational inequality

22 January, 2026 - A new generation, Gen X, has taken over as Australia’s richest property owners, thanks to boomers downsizing and ‘passing on the baton’. Mean...