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Penny Allman-Payne
Senator for Queensland

New schools deal must deliver capital funding for public system

1 July, 2024 - The Greens say a new report from the Australian Education Union showing a growing number of public schools with insufficient space to m...

Queensland rejects Dutton’s nuclear fantasy

19 June, 2024 - Greens Energy Transition spokesperson and Gladstone local, Senator Penny Allman-Payne, has slammed Peter Dutton’s nuclear fantasy, saying it’s a...

Surge in government spending on private schools fails millions of public school kids

29 May, 2024 - The Greens say Australian governments are continuing to fail millions of public school students with new data showing that government funding to ...

Labor offers no hope to 2.6 million public school kids

15 May, 2024 - The Greens say Labor’s budget contains barely no new spending for Australia’s woefully underfunded public schools while they pour an additional $...

Cost of Living Inquiry evidence is clear: Labor must raise the rate

9 May, 2024 - The Greens have urged Labor to lift all income support above the poverty line in the upcoming budget, with the weight of evidence given to a Senat...

PM mealy-mouthed and evasive in the face of a national crisis

2 May, 2024 - Senator Penny Allman-Payne, Greens social services spokesperson, has slammed the Prime Minister for his pathetic response this morning t...

Labor is entrenching disadvantage

1 May, 2024 - Following calls from leading economists for the Albanese Government to increase Jobseeker and Youth Allowance to 90% of the Age Pension, Labor can...

Labor ignores its own Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee two years running

26 April, 2024 - The Greens have slammed Labor for ignoring the recommendations of its own hand-picked advisory body two years in a row, calling for an immediat...

Greens won’t let Labor pull a swifty on school funding

22 April, 2024 - Ahead of the Education Ministers Meeting this week the Greens say they will use their numbers in the Senate to push Labor to end systemic under...

Labor refuses action on school refusal

12 April, 2024 - The Greens have called on the Education Ministers Meeting to put action on school refusal at the top of its agenda, after Labor squibbed its re...

Labor’s coal and gas addiction is holding CQ back

12 April, 2024 - The Greens say that Labor must stop approving new coal and gas projects that divert critical skilled workers away from new industries, if regio...

Labor’s NT school deal locks in underfunding for every student

13 March, 2024 - Labor’s deal with the NT government on public school funding is too little, too late, and will actually lock in underfunding for the most disad...