David Pocock

We estimate David Pocock received a parliamentary salary of: $239,270

Based on the Remuneration Tribunal base salary of $239,270 plus any additional allowance for ministerial, shadow or office-holder roles held at time of generation.

• Latest quarter total: $99,918
• Telephonic Services: $8,665
• Office Consumables and Services: $24,604
• Publications: $850
• Printing and Communications: $535
• Telecommunications - Usage: $509
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $3,469
• Fares: $3,074
• Parliamentary Duties: $205
• Domestic Travel: $2,720
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $55,286

• Walking for truth: Travis Lovett’s 500km journey to remind Albanese of his promise to create a First Nations truth-telling commission
• Bosses of Santos, Woodside, Chevron and Shell asked to give evidence to Greens-led gas tax inquiry
• Labor’s planned gambling ad limits have influencer ‘blind spots’, experts warn
• We cannot celebrate tinkering when it comes to gambling reform. Labor’s response falls tragically short | David Pocock
• ‘Letting the algorithm rip’: no legal basis for lack of human override of aged care funding tool, inquiry hears
• One Nation wins fourth seat in SA – as it happened
• Albanese announces crackdown on gambling ads, but falls well short of Labor’s own calls for total ban
• PM pledges to ‘do everything we can to protect Australia’ amid Iran fuel crisis – as it happened
• Labor backs Greens inquiry into gas export tax – as it happened
• Victoria and Tasmania get free public transport in fuel crisis but NSW and WA to keep collecting fares

• Senator David Pocock thrown out of Parliament Sports Club after criticising gambling link (2025-10-10)
  Michelle Grattan
  The ACT senator had his club membership cancelled after going public with concerns about its link with the gambling industry.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Independent senator and former Wallabies captain David Pocock on Pride jersey boycott (2022-07-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  Michelle Grattan speaks with newly-elected senator David Pocock who has already made history by becoming the first independent to hold a senate seat for the ACT.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: David Pocock wants us to aim for up to 90% reduction in emissions by 2035 (2025-05-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  David Pocock joins us to talk about the new Senate situation, his aspirations for the next three years and the election generally.
• Grattan on Friday: David Pocock has only just arrived in the Senate and now he’s negotiating with the PM (2022-11-24)
  Michelle Grattan
  On the industrial relations bill, Labor’s most difficult legislative challenge so far, the government hasn’t targeted crossbencher Jacqui Lambie. Pocock is an easier dance partner.
• Final Senate results: Labor, the Greens and David Pocock will have a majority of senators (2022-07-25)
  Adrian Beaumont
  This is an important win for the Albanese government, as it means it can pass legislation with the agreement of the Greens and one other.
• Word from The Hill: More mortgage pain, Labor’s climate legislation nearly done, and Scott Morrison staying put (2022-09-06)
  Michelle Grattan
  Michelle discusses Tuesday’s RBA rate rise – the fifth increase in a row – as well as the imminent passage of Labor’s climate legislation, and industrial relations negotiations coming out of last week’s summit.
• ACT Senate result: Pocock defeats Liberals in first time Liberals have not won one ACT Senate seat (2022-06-14)
  Adrian Beaumont
  Senate numbers are close to being finalised in other states, too.
• Grattan on Friday: Albanese government hasn’t walked its talk about accountability and integrity (2025-10-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  Labor came to power in 2022 promising a new form of transparent, accountable politics. As recent incidents have shown, there’s little sign of it.
• Word from The Hill: Albanese-Xi meeting is the first step on long march (2022-11-16)
  Michelle Grattan
  In this podcast Michelle and politics editor Amanda Dunn discuss the significant thaw in Australia-China relations that's come with the Albanese-Xi meeting, held on the sidelines of the G20 in Bali.
• We can talk about a higher rate of GST in Australia, but it will never happen (2023-08-30)
  John Quiggin
  While Australia must make some hard choices to pay for services in the future, increasing the goods and services tax is just too hard.
• Misleading and false election ads are legal in Australia. We need national truth in political advertising laws (2025-02-07)
  Yee-Fui Ng
  A loophole in the Electoral Act means it’s perfectly legal to lie to voters – as long as it doesn’t happen during official election campaigns.
• Sweeping reform of the electoral laws puts democracy at risk. They shouldn’t be changed on a whim (2025-02-06)
  Joshua Black
  The biggest changes to the electoral donations laws in 40 years risk undermining democracy by favouring the major parties over independents.
• Democracy on display or a public eyesore? The case for cracking down on election corflutes (2025-04-28)
  Andrew Hughes
  Political posters and signs proliferate at election time. Why do candidates risk the wrath of voters with what many regard as visual pollution?
• Grattan on Friday: Election delivered bonanza of crossbenchers but what impact will they make? (2022-06-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  David Pocock, the progressive independent who broke the Liberals’ stranglehold on one of the two ACT Senate seats, wouldn’t have expected to find himself allied with Pauline Hanson before even being sworn in
• Grattan on Friday: Government throws everything at securing workplace reforms before Christmas but Pocock keeps it guessing (2022-11-10)
  Michelle Grattan
  Industrial relations is one of the perennial fault lines in Australian politics. As some battles get settled, fresh ones arise, often involving similar issues, in the enduring argument about growing and sharing the economic pie.
• View from The Hill: Welfare recipients are potential winners from Pocock twisting Albanese’s arm (2022-11-27)
  Michelle Grattan
  After intense negotiations, Senate independent David Pocock negotiates for the establishment of a committee to boost economic inclusion in return for his support of the government’s IR legislation.
• Grattan on Friday: The government invited ambit claims for the budget and now it will be judged against them (2023-04-20)
  Michelle Grattan
  Managing expectations before a budget is always tricky. Two committees are making this especially so for Treasurer Jim Chalmers ahead of his second budget.
• Grattan on Friday: Should Anthony Albanese keep his word on the Stage 3 tax cuts? (2022-09-01)
  Michelle Grattan
  The final stage of the Coalition’s tax cuts, worth more than $240 billion over a decade, is now in the gun sights of many critics, who are calling on Anthony Albanese to dump his promise to deliver it.
• Grattan on Friday: National Anti-Corruption Commission set for easy birth thanks to Albanese-Dutton accord (2022-09-29)
  Michelle Grattan
  Albanese & Dutton see common ground regarding the National Anti-Corruption Commission legislation introduced to parliament earlier this week.
• Grattan on Friday: Albanese enjoys London limelight while Chalmers sweats in budget spotlight (2023-05-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  While Albanese (who lands back in Australia on budget eve) basks in the international limelight, at home Treasurer Jim Chalmers this week has been feeling the heat of the spotlight.
• Grattan on Friday: Aston byelection will test Peter Dutton’s ability to campaign on Victoria’s tough terrain (2023-02-09)
  Michelle Grattan
  Now Peter Dutton faces his own Aston test, which comes with risks and opportunities.
• The case for boosting JobSeeker for all: younger people report greater financial hardship (2023-05-07)
  Peter Siminski, Gianni La Cava
  Should people aged 55 and over get a targeted boost to their JobSeeker payments? Our research suggests the need among young Australians may well be greater.
• How to beat ‘rollout rage’: the environment-versus-climate battle dividing regional Australia (2023-10-22)
  Peter Burnett
  If Australia is to meet its net zero targets it must move fast and build massive industrial infrastructure. But those projects are provoking fierce hostility. Is there a way through the green dilemma?
• More Senate results: Hanson wins easily, but Labor still on track for a friendly Senate (2022-07-25)
  Adrian Beaumont
  With Senate results close to being finalised across the country, Labor will need the support of the Greens and one or two other senators to get legislation through the upper house.
• Australia’s safeguard mechanism deal is only a half-win for the Greens, and for the climate (2023-03-28)
  Kate Crowley
  Australia’s new climate deal contains wins for the Greens – but the negotiations were bruising
• Record 85.7% of Greens preferenced Labor at federal election; electoral reform proposals (2022-07-26)
  Adrian Beaumont
  Preference flows from the 2022 federal election show changes to the flow to the ALP across the board.
• Tree spiking = Beheading ergo Environmentalism = Terrorism (2015-10-05)
  Clive Hamilton
  Moral equivalence is among the standard logical fallacies identified by philosophers. “It seeks to draw comparisons”, goes a definition, “between different, often unrelated things, to make a point that…
• Rugby World Cup: are cheats prospering? (2011-09-16)
  Brian Stoddart
  RUGBY WORLD CUP – The athleticism of the players has impressed in this tournament, but is there a whiff of unsportsmanlike behaviour in the air? Brian Stoddart of La Trobe University investigates. A few…
• Networks and money: the inside story of how the teals won Australia’s six richest electorates (2022-11-29)
  Amy Nethery
  The 2022 federal election success of the teals and other community independents has been captured in three new books. How and why did they become a political force – and what might the future hold?
• NACC decision not to investigate Robodebt referrals will be revisited by ‘eminent person’ (2024-10-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  The commission’s inspector found NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton had not adequately excused himself from the decision not to investigate the six Robodebt referrals.