2025 Joseph Fisher Public Lecture
The 2025 Joseph Fisher Public Lecture by Senator Barbara Pocock, hosted by the University of Adelaide's School of Economics and Public Policy.
Jobs, Work, Justice and Gender in the Pandemic
Webinar organised by Sustainable Prosperity, 24th August 2020. Australia went into the pandemic with high under-employment, stagnant wages, widespread wage theft and long-lived gender inequities at work and at home. How has the pandemic affected these? How have responses to the pandemic addressed - or failed to address - these challenges? What should we do to fix work-based injustices and create jobs for women and men during the pandemic and recession that follows?
Speakers: Emeritus Professor Barbara Pocock, UniSA and Abbey Kendall, Director Working Women's Centre SA.
Speech at Parliament House Opposing Import of Nuclear Waste into SA Mothers for a Sustainable South Australia, Barbara Pocock Speaking (2017)
Work, home and communities: How do we get our suburbs right? A talk I gave just b4 lockdown at Whittlesea Council in outer-Melb about what it takes to create good lives in our outer suburbs – in ways that include women, men and children. Shows our research findings, put to work...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ktSGlLSv4Y&feature=youtu.be
NATIONAL LECTURES
'Working Hard for the Money' 2016, Victorian Fabian Society Future of Work Lecture
'Holding up Half the Sky: Women at work in the 20th Century'
the Fay Gale Lecture, University of Adelaide, (2015)