{"id":79719,"date":"2026-08-25T03:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/79719\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T03:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:56:07","slug":"greens-senator-barbara-pocock-will-not-seek-preselection-in-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/79719\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens Senator Barbara Pocock will not seek preselection in 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greens senator Barbara Pocock will not recontest the next federal election in 2028 following her partner\u2019s diagnosis with brain cancer. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the South Australian Senator said she would not seek a second term in parliament, but would serve out the remainder of her term. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter much consideration, I have made the decision that I will not be nominating for preselection for a second term in the Senate,\u201d Senator Pocock said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reasons are personal. For the past year my partner has had brain cancer and despite his good prognosis, I\u2019ve reached the view that running for a second term is not right for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next federal election is a long way off and I still have plenty of work to do on housing, securing super for under 18-year-olds, holding KPMG to account and reforming the big four firms. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remain committed to continuing my work on climate and environmental justice.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Senator Pocock was elected in 2022 after a career at the Reserve Bank of Australia, as a lecturer at the University of Adelaide, and at the Australia Institute.<\/p>\n<p>She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2010 for her work in industrial relations and social justice. <\/p>\n<p>Liberal senators Jonathon Duniam and Wendy Askew had also announced they would either leave parliament or not seek preselection in recent months. <\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/adam-bandt\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Adam Bandt\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Bandt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greens senator Barbara Pocock will not recontest the next federal election in 2028 following her partner\u2019s diagnosis with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[123380,69740,123372,74144,32730,25766,41054,94393,49764,37595,123378,41853,37726,395,22,23,21,24640,123377,123369,41049,123375,57222,123366,3545,12690,123367,36637,123373,25447,123376,93843,123381,3218,39012,70185,123370,45121,40594,123371,14688,9810,123368,123374,38199,39137,66896,51809,46395,57356,57075,40944,123379,51961,49501,17331],"class_list":["post-79719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-olds","tag-s-diagnosis","tag-s-major-parties","tag-74144","tag-32730","tag-25766","tag-a-career","tag-a-lecturer","tag-a-long-way","tag-a-member","tag-a-second-term","tag-a-senator","tag-a-statement","tag-adelaide","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-austrlia","tag-brain-cancer","tag-climate-and-environmental-justice","tag-greens-senator-barbara-pocock","tag-her-partner","tag-her-term","tag-her-work","tag-his-good-prognosis","tag-housing","tag-industrial-relations","tag-jonathon-duniam-and-wendy-askew","tag-kpmg","tag-liberal-senators","tag-major-party","tag-much-consideration","tag-my-partner","tag-my-work","tag-parliament","tag-plenty","tag-preselection","tag-re-election","tag-recent-months","tag-senator","tag-senator-pocock","tag-social-justice","tag-super","tag-the-australia-institute-she","tag-the-big-four-firms","tag-the-decision","tag-the-next-federal-election","tag-the-order","tag-the-past-year","tag-the-reasons","tag-the-remainder","tag-the-reserve-bank","tag-the-senate","tag-the-south-australian-senator","tag-the-university","tag-the-view","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}