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Penny Allman-Payne
Senator for Queensland

Labor humiliation: Senate votes to scrap automated aged care assessments

18 August, 2026 - In another embarrassing defeat for Labor’s unravelling aged care reforms, the Senate has this afternoon backed a Greens motion demanding that ...

Greens Call on Labor to scrap broken aged care assessment tool following damning Four Corners report

17 August, 2026 - The Australian Greens have demanded that Labor go back to the drawing board on aged care assessments after a damning Four Corners investigatio...

No public funds without a public stake: Greens demand that Australians get a share of Tomago Aluminium

13 August, 2026 - The Australian Greens are demanding that Australians get a stake in the country’s largest aluminium smelter after the Labor federal and state ...

Employment services “punishment without trial” is back

5 August, 2026 - The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) has quietly announced they will resume some payment cancellations and suspensions f...

Labor’s failed aged care reforms cop another whack from the Senate

2 July, 2026 - The Senate this morning passed a bill to reinstate human override in aged care assessments, handing Labor another humiliation over its disastrous...

“Get your dirty hands off our kids”: Greens demand inquiry into fossil fuel industry influence on children

29 June, 2026 - The Australian Greens are demanding an inquiry into the fossil fuel industry's influence on children after a new report uncovered more than 260 ...

Reckless Labor risks lives as aged care reforms unravel

24 June, 2026 - A Greens-chaired Senate inquiry has slammed the government’s plan to terminate a critical feature of Australia’s aged care system, in yet anothe...

Waiting to die: aged care wait times blow out under Labor’s rationing regime

13 May, 2026 - Labor’s brutal aged care regime has seen average wait times for home support and residential care blow out, as the effects of rationing begin to ...

Co-pay backflip a win for older people but cowardly Labor robs Peter to pay Paul

22 April, 2026 - The Greens say that Labor’s announcement today that it will unwind its disastrous co-payment model for in-home showering, dressing and continen...

Labor must pause mutual obligations and raise Centrelink payments in response to fuel crisis

24 March, 2026 - The Greens have called on Labor to immediately pause mutual obligations and raise the rate of all Centrelink payments above the poverty line in...

Robodebt architects get away scot-free; dodgy welfare compliance and debt recovery continues

11 March, 2026 - The Greens say the results of the NACC investigation into the illegal Robodebt scheme will be cold comfort to the thousands of Australians whos...

Aged care hardship claims have more than doubled under Labor’s Support at Home

12 February, 2026 - Hardship applications from Aged Care participants have more than doubled since the introduction of Labor’s new Aged Care Act, figures disclo...