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Barbara Pocock
Senator for South Australia

Inquiry - Greens WFH bill backed by evidence

4 November, 2026 - The Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee held a public hearing into the Greens' Fair Work Amendment (Right to Work from Home...

Barbara Pocock

29 October, 2026 - Taking on housing inequality, challenging corporate influence and fighting for fairer workplaces, economic justice and stronger public services.

RELEASE: $2.2m a year - a lottery win or APS salary?

28 October, 2026 - 17 federal public servants are earning over $1 million a year, up from 11 in the previous 2024-25 financial year, including one earning $2.2 ...

Inquiry: Australia’s delivery of social housing is a failure

22 October, 2026 - The Senate Economics References Committee’s first public hearing into Social Housing, held in Canberra today, heard evidence of serious failu...

Labor’s review into KPMG just more tinkering

22 October, 2026 - The Department of Finance has extended its temporary pause on new KPMG Commonwealth contracts to 28 February 2027. Dr Ian Watt’s indepen...

78% of Australians back rent limits

14 October, 2026 - New polling from the Australia Institute today reveals the majority of Australians support some form of rent regulation as well as increased ...

Greens call for federal support for Aboriginal-controlled YiSSA housing

7 October, 2026 - The federal government must urgently fund Darwin’s Yilli Short Stay Accommodation (YiSSA) to prevent its imminent closure, Greens say in ...

Labor spend on KPMG nearly doubled, data shows

6 October, 2026 - The Labor Government continues to spend big on consulting firms, despite the myriad of scandals that have plagued the Big 4 firms, according t...

Gov must find solution for first homebuyers conned by Labor’s 5% deposit scheme: Greens

2 October, 2026 - The Greens say that the government needs to find a solution for first homebuyers who have been conned by Labor’s 5% home deposit scheme - enco...

The public servants earning over $1 million

2 October, 2026 - A dozen federal public servants are earning over $1 million a year, including one EL2 earning over $1.5 million, according to a government res...

Locked out: the growing housing divide

30 September, 2026 - The Greens-led senate inquiry into intergenerational housing inequity spent six months hearing evidence from across the country about Austr...

Bathla collapse: the case for a public developer

16 September, 2026 - Thousands of Bathla homebuyers are waiting in limbo to find out if their homes will be built or if they’ll lose their deposits, after Bathl...