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Penny Allman-Payne
Senator for Queensland

Labor deals blow to renewable energy transition

24 March, 2023 - The Greens say the government must include funding for an independent statutory National Energy Transition Authority (NETA) in the May budget a...

Greens secure coal and gas pledge from government

9 March, 2023 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt and Greens spokesperson on Industry, Transition and Regional Development Senator Penny Allman-Payne have secured a...

Greens seek to cooperate with Government to deliver National Energy Transition Authority

28 February, 2023 - The Greens have offered to cooperate with the Government to establish a National Energy Transition Authority, with a Bill currently before t...

Greens to introduce Bill to remove 20% cap on federal public schools funding

24 February, 2023 - The Greens will introduce a Bill to remove the arbitrary 20% cap on Commonwealth funding for public schools’ Schooling Resource Standard. ...

National Reconstruction Fund could become slush fund for coal and gas, Estimates confirms

18 February, 2023 - Questions in Senate Estimates asked by Australian Greens Industry spokesperson Senator Penny Allman-Payne revealed that the Government could...

Federal Labor washing its hands of Gabba rebuild

13 February, 2023 - Questions in Senate Estimates asked by Queensland Greens Senator Penny Allman-Payne revealed that the federal government is outsourcing Inte...

Gonski’s a goner

7 February, 2023 - The Greens say new data from the Productivity Commission shows that Australian governments have abandoned the Gonski reforms, with funding gr...

Withdraw government funding from Opus Dei-linked schools

31 January, 2023 - The Greens have called on the Australian and NSW governments to withdraw funding from four elite Sydney schools linked with the extremist sec...

Underfunding to blame for inequality crisis in schools

20 January, 2023 - The Greens say the findings in today’s Productivity Commission report into the National School Reform Agreement (NSRA) are irrefutable eviden...

Labor’s Christmas gift for underfunded public schools: a kick in the teeth

18 December, 2022 - The Greens will explore options to remove the legislated 20% cap on the Commonwealth’s contribution to public school funding, after Labor an...

Unprepared teachers no solution to shortage crisis

7 December, 2022 - The Greens say the Federal Government’s plan to fast-track interns into classrooms would further entrench education inequality while doing ve...

School disruption inquiry puts target on teachers’ and students’ backs

28 November, 2022 - The Greens say a Senate inquiry into school disruption, initiated by the Liberals and backed by Labor, risks being used as a platform t...