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Penny Allman-Payne
Senator for Queensland

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...

The school funding wars are back

22 February, 2024 - the school funding wars are back By Penny Allman-Payne, Senator for Queensland    Over the next few months you’re going t...

Labor refuses to ditch dodgy Morrison-era loophole from public school funding agreements

15 February, 2024 - In Senate Estimates this morning Labor refused to rule out dropping the dodgy accounting trick from bilateral funding agreements which allow...

End dodgy accounting tricks in new public school funding deals

1 February, 2024 - The Greens say Labor must eliminate dodgy accounting tricks from new bilateral deals on school funding, with states and territories currently...

Public school plan locks in underfunding

31 January, 2024 - Today’s so-called “deal” between the federal and WA Labor governments on school funding looks more like a stitch-up for public school kids th...

Private schools should have public funding stripped: survey

29 January, 2024 - With most students returning to school around the country today, Australian parents have sent a clear message to Labor to end school funding ...

Redirect fossil fuel subsidies to accelerate community-led energy transition

25 January, 2024 - The Greens say $11 billion in annual federal subsidies to polluting fossil fuel companies should be phased out and the money redirected to ac...

Greens write to education ministers urging full funding for public schools

6 December, 2023 - The Greens have today written to Commonwealth, state and territory education ministers to urge them to fully fund public schools, after PISA ...

OECD report proves school underfunding is baking in educational inequality

6 December, 2023 - The Greens say new OECD data showing Australia’s most disadvantaged school students falling further behind their more privileged peers should...

School disruption report offers no answers for teachers or disadvantaged kids

1 December, 2023 - The interim report of the Liberal-dominated Senate inquiry into so-called “school disruption” fails to meaningfully address the underlying ca...