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Barbara Pocock
Senator for South Australia

Greens call for rent freeze amid rising inflation

29 July, 2026 - Australian households are being pushed to the brink as real wages fall and inflation accelerates. New CPI data today shows inflation remains ...

Australian Greens thank outgoing ACTU leaders for their service to working people

28 July, 2026 - The Australian Greens thank Sally McManus and Michele O’Neil for their years of leadership and unwavering commitment to improving the lives of w...

KPMG raking it in on multimillion-dollar contracts

22 July, 2026 - New biannual government data, which tables consulting contracts worth over $2 million, shows KPMG is raking in multimillion-dollar contracts des...

Millennials first generation worse off than parents

9 July, 2026 - The sixth hearing of the Greens-led Senate inquiry into intergenerational housing inequity, held in Melbourne today, heard stark evidence of youn...

Inquiry: The case for rent caps mounts

7 July, 2026 - The fifth hearing of the Greens-led Senate Inquiry into intergenerational housing inequity, held in Sydney today, showed an increasing number of ...

New KPMG chair disrespects parliament & whistleblower

2 July, 2026 - Today, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services has published an email from newly appointed KPMG independent chai...

Labor votes against teen super

1 July, 2026 - Labor has ganged up with the anti-worker Liberal Party to vote against the Greens’ efforts to get under 18 year-old workers paid superannuation. ...

No more tinkering, Labor must act on Big 4

1 July, 2026 - In response to the recent fallout over KPMG’s multiple scandals which followed the PwC scandal, Labor has released a position paper into accounti...

Labor doesn’t want teens to be paid super

30 June, 2026 - Labor’s Payday Super bill (Treasury Laws Amendment (Payday Superannuation) Bill 2025), which comes into effect tomorrow, comes with regulations ...

Greens win protections for workers in Workplaces Bill

29 June, 2026 - The Greens have secured amendments to the government’s Building Cooperative Workplaces Bill that will protect workers' pay and conditions, and e...

Unethical KPMG hired for ethics training

27 June, 2026 - The Labor Government continues to hire morally-bankrupt KPMG to run ethics and leadership training for senior public servants despite the ongoin...

KPMG heads roll but rot remains

23 June, 2026 - KPMG chairman Martin Sheppard and senior auditors will resign following a heated parliamentary hearing last Friday, prompted by multiple scandal...