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Penny Allman-Payne

@senatorpennyqld

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Queensland Senator and Greens spokesperson for Social Services, Schools, Transition & Regional Development, Older People and Sport. Living on stolen land.

Gladstone, Queensland
Joined July 2011
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Penny Allman-Payne
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98% per cent of public schools are underfunded while the feds give fee-charging private schools $51 million a day. To most people this seems patently unfair, but to the private school lobby it's a pretty good deal. No wonder they're upset with the Greens for calling it out.
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Penny Allman-Payne
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Australia has no official definition of poverty - which gives the old parties a great excuse to sit on their hands! The Greens Poverty and Inequality Commission would advise the govt on defining and eliminating poverty - informed by people with direct contemporary experience.
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Labor won't properly fund public schools but they're more than happy for the defence industry to get their claws into our kids. It's not STEM education. It's propaganda.
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Penny Allman-Payne
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Every day this Labor government stubbornly refuses to raise the rate of income support - in the face of all the advice to the contrary! - is another day they choose to leave millions in poverty. Thanks to those who let me share stories in the Senate today. 🙏💚
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Teachers have been asked to do more with less for decades. It's time for the Government to join with the Greens and state Labor Premiers to lock in full funding for public schools, and lock out the Liberals
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As we issue this nationwide ban, we are once again renewing calls on the Albanese Government to urgently resume school funding negotiations with the state and territory governments to achieve five-year bilateral agreements which deliver the minimum 100% Schooling Resource
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Larissa Waters
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It's been 1 year of mass destruction and death by Israel. Photograph: @mpbowers / @GuardianAus
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Larissa Waters
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A reminder that just over a week ago Tanya Plibersek gave 3 coal project approvals in a single day! If you want change you’re going to have to vote for it.
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