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Penny Allman-Payne
Senator for Queensland

Labor’s aged care deal with Dutton deserves scrutiny

13 September, 2024 - The Greens say older people must be given the chance to properly scrutinise Labor’s aged care deal with the Coalition, and that they are co...

Labor dancing to Dutton’s tune on aged care

10 September, 2024 - The Greens say Labor is dancing to the Opposition’s tune on aged care with reports that the Coalition is putting the brakes on a deal for a...

Labor's reverse Robin Hood: Public schools bleeding money to private schools

6 September, 2024 - The Greens say Labor’s school funding plan is a ‘reverse Robin Hood’, bleeding public schools dry to give to wealthy private schools. New...

Report should spell the end of compulsory income management

3 September, 2024 - The report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights into compulsory income management has recommended the complete a...

Labor leaving older Australians in the dark on new Aged Care Act

16 August, 2024 - The Greens say Labor is keeping older Australians in the dark on its new Aged Care Act, with the community growing increasingly anxious about ...

It’s the underfunding, stupid

14 August, 2024 - The Greens say Labor’s new schools agreement would do nothing to reverse the decline in school performance, and would actually lock in underfu...

Labor’s school funding promise gets an F for fake

31 July, 2024 - The Greens say Labor’s Better and Fairer Schools Agreement (BFSA) locks in public school underfunding for a decade and fails to provide a cohere...

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...