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Barbara Pocock

Barbara Pocock is an Australian Greens senator for South Australia. First elected 1 July 2022.

2022 Won Senate seat
2022 May 2026
  1. 2022 Won Senate seat
  • Australian Greens

What do they focus on?

Not enough tracked speeches or amendments to say yet.

  • Work & employment 19
  • Budget, tax & economy 11
  • Welfare & housing 7
  • Government & democracy 4
  • Climate, energy & environment 3

Bars show tracked speeches and amendments by policy area.

How do they vote?

Share of recorded votes on the same side as each party's majority.

  • Greens 99%
  • Labor 51%
  • One Nation 18%
  • Coalition 13%

931 tracked votes while with Greens.

How do they compare?

  • Years in parliament i Total time served across every stint in either chamber, up to the end of the tracked record. 4 yrs 0.2 avg 8.5 yrs 33.3
  • Votes against their party i Recorded votes cast against their own party's majority side. The average is across party members only. 0 avg 0.6 26
  • Bills introduced i Bills they introduced to Parliament, counted across the tracked record. 3 avg 2.8 46
  • Amendments sponsored i Amendments to bills they put forward during debate, counted across the tracked record. 17 avg 7.9 226
Where their votes sit, left to right i Built from votes alone: party members sit at their party's mark and move only by votes cast against their own party toward a neighbouring one. Independents are placed by their side on the votes where the parties disagreed.
Barbara Greens Labor Coalition One Nation

The marker starts at their party’s position and shifts only for floor-crossings towards a neighbouring party. No topic strip is shown because their economic, social and environment votes followed the party line.

What have they done lately?

From November 2025 to June 2026, Pocock supported payday superannuation while seeking protection for under-18 part-time workers; that amendment was defeated 14-24. She supported workplace relations changes and an amendment strengthening workplace-determination terms, which carried, then voted Aye when the bill passed 31-25. On tax reform, she supported the bill but backed measures to reinvest tax savings in housing and restrict SMSF property borrowing; the former was defeated 11-33 and latter carried 33-26. She also voted Aye to advance NDIS changes on 22 June 2026.

When do they vote against their party?

Barbara recorded no votes against the Greens position across 931 recorded votes.

What do they say in debate?

41 tracked speeches across 41 bills.

  • 28 backing a bill
  • 5 with reservations
  • 8 against
  • 0 no clear position

About these numbers

Based on 766 tracked bills from the 47th and 48th Parliaments, current to 6 July 2026. This is a sample of parliamentary activity, not the complete record.

Career markers come from dated public records. Voting figures use division lists only. For party members, the left-to-right marker begins at the party position. It moves only when the member votes against that party and on the same side as a neighbouring party; other cross-party combinations do not affect it. Independents and minor-party members are placed by their votes in divisions where the Greens and the Coalition took opposite sides. If this position differs from a member’s broader public politics, a note appears below the strip.