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Penny Allman-Payne
Senator for Queensland

Loy Yang early closure reinforces need for National Energy Transition Authority

29 September, 2022 - AGL’s announcement today that it will be shutting the Loy Yang A power station in the Latrobe Valley nearly a decade earlier than planned a...

Greens call on Labor to back National Energy Transition Authority Bill

27 September, 2022 - The Greens have called on Labor to support its bill to establish a National Energy Transition Authority, which was introduced in the Senate...

Condolence speech for Queen Elizabeth II

23 September, 2022 - I rise to give my condolences on the death of Queen Elizabeth the Second, and to extend my sympathies to her family and those who knew her ...

School funding inequity still the elephant in the room

14 September, 2022 - The Greens say an interim report by the Productivity Commission into the National Schools Reform Agreement (NSRA) obscures the fact that pe...

Senate speech on stage 3 tax cuts urgency motion

7 September, 2022 - We've heard a lot of rhetoric from some people in the chamber around the stage 3 tax cuts. But we need to remind ourselves that what we are ...

Senate speech on the Climate Change Bill 2022

7 September, 2022 - I rise to speak this evening to the climate change bills. I note that many of my Greens colleagues have spoken to these bills and done so wi...

Senate speech on cost of living motion

6 September, 2022 - Australians are facing a cost-of-living crisis. People are being smashed on all fronts: rising rents and mortgage repayments, rising food pr...

Senate speech on workplace relations motion

5 September, 2022 - I rise to speak on this motion as a proud unionist. Unions are essential to the protection and advancement of workers' rights in this countr...

Greens to move for energy transition authority in Parliament

29 August, 2022 - The Greens Industry, Transition and Regional Development spokesperson and Gladstone local, Senator Penny Allman-Payne, will give notice of a B...

Still no credible plan to tackle teacher shortage crisis

12 August, 2022 - The Greens have called on the nation’s education ministers to tackle the root causes of the teacher shortage crisis, after today’s roundtable ...

End under-resourcing and increase salaries to fix teacher shortage crisis

11 August, 2022 - Ahead of tomorrow’s Education Ministers meeting, the Greens have called on federal, state and territory governments to address teacher shortag...

Teachers and students deserve better than technocratic tinkering

2 August, 2022 - The Greens say a proposal by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership to parachute inexperienced staff into classrooms and g...