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Penny Allman-Payne
Senator for Queensland

Labor’s Aged Care Act deferral a brief reprieve for older people who will be forced to pay more

4 June, 2025 - The Greens have cautiously welcomed the deferral of the major parties’ Aged Care Act to 1 November, which will provide a brief reprieve for older...

Raising the rate crucial to tackling violence against women

4 June, 2025 - The Australian Greens have urged the Albanese Government to urgently lift income support recipients out of poverty and put an end to the punitive...

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...