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Penny Allman-Payne
Senator for Queensland

Labor's public school plan rips $18 billion out of public schools, opens door for Dutton's cuts

28 April, 2025 - New analysis shows that public schools will have $18 billion ripped away due to Labor’s plan to push full public school funding back to 2034.&n...

Greens announce plan to lower retirement age and lift pension above poverty line

26 April, 2025 - The Greens have today announced a plan to lower the retirement age and lift the age pension above the poverty line, allowing Australians to ret...

Unfit to govern: Member for Flynn caught on camera hoping for blackouts

16 April, 2025 - The Greens say today’s report that the Member for Flynn had called blackouts a “political opportunity” proves that the LNP is unfit to govern. ...

Bandt in Griffith pledges free school meals for kids across the country

15 April, 2025 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt MP will today join Member for Griffith Max Chandler-Mather and Senator Penny Allman-Payne to launch the Greens’ plan f...

Greens only party with plan for Queensland coal and gas workers

15 April, 2025 - The Greens are the only party with a plan to protect the futures of Queensland’s coal and gas communities, with the announcement of a financial...

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...