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Penny Allman-Payne
Senator for Queensland

Dunce-cap Dutton’s plan ripped straight from Trump’s Project 2025

2 April, 2025 - The Greens say Peter Dutton’s threats to withhold money from public education if teachers don’t deliver his fantasy right-wing curriculum is an ...

Greens slam Dutton’s Trump-style program of curriculum interference and education cuts

1 April, 2025 - The Greens have slammed Peter Dutton’s plan to withhold public school funding and cut ‘thousands’ of jobs in the Commonwealth Department of Educ...

Dutton Government risks Trump-style gutting of public schools

27 March, 2025 - The Greens say a Dutton Government would result in cuts to public schools, a wound back Department of Education, and a Minister fixated on moul...

Cowardly Labor leaves more than 3 million in poverty

26 March, 2025 - More than 3 million Australians are still in poverty today, after Labor’s do-nothing budget left income support below the poverty line for the ...

Queensland public school deal locks in underfunding for another decade

24 March, 2025 - Federal Labor’s school funding agreement today with the Queensland Government guarantees that another generation of public school kids will nev...

Murray Watt missing in action on mutual obligations disaster

21 March, 2025 - The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations’ extraordinary admission today that more elements of mutual obligations have been pau...

Labor’s welfare payment claims are a cruel joke

20 March, 2025 - The Greens say Labor’s claim that today’s 22 cents a day indexation of JobSeeker will help with cost-of-living pressures is an insult to the hu...

Greens welcome national conversation on disadvantage in schools

5 March, 2025 - The Greens have welcomed comments by former secretary of the federal Department of Education, Dr Michele Bruniges, examining disadvantage in Aus...

Minister must suspend broken Targeted Compliance Framework immediately

28 February, 2025 - The Greens have called on Employment Relations Minister Murray Watt to immediately suspend the Targeted Compliance Framework (TCF) after Gre...

Restore the CES: Greens will abolish for-profit job services and end mutual obligations

25 February, 2025 - The Greens will eliminate for-profit providers from the employment services system, restore the Commonwealth Employment Service (CES), and a...

200,000 young people to be better off under Greens’ changes to JobSeeker and Youth Allowance

20 February, 2025 - 200,000 more young people would get access to JobSeeker or Youth Allowance or increased payments to support them in further studies under th...

More support for public schools welcome but pathway to 100% funding remains unclear

24 January, 2025 - Comments attributable to Greens spokesperson on Primary and Secondary Education, Senator Penny Allman-Payne: “This is a welcome step forwa...