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Barbara Pocock
Senator for South Australia

Greens welcome action to regulate Big 4 consultants but will it be enough?

3 July, 2025 - Treasury must consider all the recommendations of two recent parliamentary inquiries before it takes action to regulate the Big 4 consulting firm...

Greens call for PwC ban to continue

1 July, 2025 - PwC should not be allow to tender for government contracts until all outstanding investigations into the tax leaks scandal have been resolved and...

Greens' housing plan to protect renters from unfair repercussions

24 June, 2025 - New data from Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) reveals seven in ten people who rent privately across Australia won’t ask for re...

Labor's refusal to stop unlimited rent increases is a matter of choice

10 June, 2025 - Housing Minister Clare O’Neil’s promise to slash red tape in home building risks handing our urban environments to property developers whose onl...

Senator Barbara Pocock to take up housing fight

4 June, 2025 - The Greens have named Senator Barbara Pocock as the party’s new housing spokesperson, in recognition of her significant achievements in the last ...

FWC 3.5% increase good news, but further to go to address historical decline in real wages

3 June, 2025 - The Fair Work Commission’s 3.5% increase is good news for workers, but there is still more work to be done to restore the purchasing power of the...

Without targets Labor’s consulting cuts can’t deliver

29 April, 2025 - Labor’s promise to cut $6.4 billion in spending by reducing consultants’ contracts and outsourced service delivery is meaningless unless the Go...

Greens Senator calls on Dutton to do another backflip on right to disconnect

14 April, 2025 - The Greens employment spokesperson, Barbara Pocock, has called on Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton, to perform yet another policy backflip, this...

3,700 South Australian APS workers could lose jobs

7 April, 2025 - New numbers reveal which South Australian workers are most at risk under Peter Dutton’s proposed plan to cut 41,000 jobs from the Australian Pub...

Dutton retreats on work from home, but persists with drawn out public service cuts

7 April, 2025 - The Coalition’s spectacular backflip on sacking public servants should not be misread as a retreat from their cost-cutting agenda. They remain c...

Greens demand voice in Public Service debate

31 March, 2025 - The Greens Public Service spokesperson, Barbara Pocock, wants to be part of the proposed debate between Labor’s Katy Gallagher and Liberal spok...

Tiny tax tweak Budget a missed opportunity to get dental into Medicare, tax the big corporations: Greens

25 March, 2025 - The Australian Greens have said today’s budget was a missed opportunity to deliver real cost of living relief by getting dental into Medicare, ...