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Barbara Pocock
Senator for South Australia

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, ...

Labor’s budget savings on consultants don’t go far enough

24 March, 2025 - Labor has consistently refused to separate the amount spent on consultants from the overall spend on external contractors so it’s impossible to...

Still no consequences for PwC tax scandal

21 March, 2025 - Assistant Treasurer, Stephen Jones has claimed that the government has not forgotten the PwC tax leaks scandal even though it’s been two years ...

Greens launch 4 day work week election policy

17 March, 2025 - The Greens have announced their policy to pave the way for a 4-day work week through nationwide trials across a range of industries coordinated...

Coalition ban on work from home punishes women, carers and the economy

4 March, 2025 - The Coalition’s announcement that public servants would be banned from working from home under a Dutton government is anti-women and would make ...

Greens call for urgent measures to help struggling wine grape growers

28 February, 2025 - The Australian Greens have supported the introduction of a mandatory code of conduct for wine grape purchases after hearing evidence from wi...

Restore the CES: Greens will abolish for-profit job services and end mutual obligations

25 February, 2025 - The Greens will eliminate for-profit providers from the employment services system, restore the Commonwealth Employment Service (CES), and a...

Public investment in Whyalla steelworks is essential but must result in Public Equity: Greens

20 February, 2025 - Joint Statement from Greens MPs Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Senator Barbara Pocock, Robert Simms MLC, Tammy Franks MLC The Australian Gre...