Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 23hWhat does the inequality crisis look like? This 👇 98% of public schools are underfunded – that’s 2.6 million kids without the resources they need for the education they deserve. Yet the richest private schools are charging massive fees while banking billions of public dollars. 910854
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 07/10/2026Louise is 71, on the pension, and terrified of her next rent rise. Her story is one I hear from older Queenslanders all the time. If you live alone, the pension doesn't cover living costs. No income support payment does. 85118
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 24/09/2026This is your brain on neoliberalism: the problem isn't that your wages are falling and big corporations are gouging you for every cent, the problem is that you're just not comparing prices enough! 78629
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 23/09/2026We don’t have time for this. About 250 Australians die every year from heatwaves. That number is projected to sky-rocket to 6000 by 2100. The major parties are choosing their fossil fuel donors over people’s lives. A green transition means a liveable future for all of us. 22113
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 22/09/2026Deidre's husband waited months for a special chair he desperately needed. It arrived two weeks after he died. Labor's aged care reforms are a disaster: blowing out waitlists, denying care and forcing people off supports. Growing old should be a joy, not a struggle for survival. 23721
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 21/09/2026Labor backbenchers have been out in force the past few days spruiking "increases" in Centrelink payments. To be very, very clear: this is absolute bullshit. This is an automatic CPI adjustment, not an increase. Labor is still keeping people on income support in poverty. 1113971
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 17/09/2026In 2022 Labor promised to scrap compulsory income control. They lied. Now they've extended it INDEFINITELY on the quiet. The Greens tried to undo this in the Senate last week but Labor and the LNP blocked us. I'm chairing a hearing tomorrow where I'll be demanding some answers. 55337
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 17/09/2026For almost a year now we’ve listened to the Aged Care minister defend the broken home support assessment system. Now we learn he wasn't briefed on the tool depriving clinicians of oversight until three days before the changes took effect. 33424
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 16/09/2026Queensland’s LNP government has signed away our power and data to a trillion-dollar company. The site in Western Downs will use the same amount of energy as 1.5 million households. That’s 44x the population there! The community didn't ask for this. Moratorium now. 24328
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 16/09/2026Every time Labor, the LNP and One Nation punch down on immigrants, they're providing cover for supermarkets gouging us at the checkout, banks raising our mortgages and the billionaires hoarding our wealth. The same corporations and billionaires that fund their political operations! 13014
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 14/09/2026It's all well and good to have a select committee into how the government is going to use AI. But it's kind of beside the point when we don't even have guardrails for the use of AI, and we've got people warning about its catastrophic risks. What is Labor playing at? 33718
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 09/09/2026There are massive culture problems at some of our most elite private schools. So many reports of misogyny, harassment & abuse - yet despite the millions they get in public funding, school leadership is rarely held accountable. We can't keep letting them play by their own rules. 54828
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 09/09/2026In Australia, millionaire mortgage brokers can simply buy time to lobby the Prime Minister. They just have to donate money to charities that only need to exist because industries like theirs make massive profits at the expense of public services and supports. Great system! 22813
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 08/09/2026We're only eight days into spring and Queensland is in flames. This is runaway global heating. This is what happens when weak politicians addicted to corporate cash let coal and gas companies write government policy. Labor must act. No more coal. No more gas. Transition now. 17547
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 07/09/2026Spare me this performative bullshit, Senator. The thousands lost in Nepal and Tibet died because political parties like yours have been bought by fossil fuel dollars. It’s that simple. You say you have “sympathy”? Not enough sympathy to stop cooking the planet apparently. 412049
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 04/09/2026Labor has approved yet another coal project, extending it to 2055. Fossil fuels are incompatible with a liveable future. Far North Qld will be most at risk of sea level rises and heat-related deaths. We need a government that works for everyday people, not corporations. 37748
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 27/08/2026Labor and the LNP have sold Queensland to dirty fossil fuels and big tech corporations. The Greens will keep pushing for strong guardrails to stop these massive companies from scraping our data, making the climate emergency worse, and pushing up our electricity bills. 36231
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 26/08/2026Another reminder that every time we’re doing it tough, these massive corporations are gleefully raking in massive increases to their profits. Big oil and gas companies don’t want to switch to cheap & green renewables, because then how will they extort us? 48860
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 25/08/2026Last week, Minister Plibersek went out touting an ‘increase’ to social security, when this was just mandated indexation. In real terms, welfare payments are lagging behind, especially Jobseeker. 1/2 65329
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 25/08/2026Today, Gold Coast Council will vote on the privatisation of the operation of council pools. Public assets should be under public control and run for the public good, not private profit. Council must reject the model of privatisation that has done nothing but fail Queenslanders. 32411
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 25/08/2026Big tech needs stronger regulation, not less. Queensland farmers should not have to compete for water with big tech companies, especially when our state frequently battles severe droughts. 58134
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 21/08/2026Hands off UQ Union! Student money should be student directed. But UQ’s Transition Plan rips control away from students and their union. Students will be protesting this injustice on August 26th on campus. The Greens are in solidarity with their fight. 0126
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 20/08/2026The two-party system is broken. By choosing to side with the predatory gambling industry, Labor and the Coalition last night failed their primary responsibility: to protect Australians from harm. They're not fit to govern. It's time for a change. 1348
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 19/08/2026Thank you for promoting our fantastic public ownership policies Senator Roberts! 🫡 78534
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 18/08/2026The writing is on the wall for Labor’s aged care assessment tool. Older people, carers and experts have been screaming for months that it's systematically under-assessing need and priority. Now the Senate has been crystal clear: it’s time for Labor to go back to the drawing board. 27428
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 18/08/2026Labor claims its automated aged care assessments tool is designed to better target funding. I've always said that was bullshit, and now a Four Corners investigation proves it. Removing human beings from care decisions is just cost-cutting – and older people are paying the price. 54021
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 13/08/2026If you're looking for evidence of a sick school system, here it is 👇 We have one of the most segregated school systems in the OECD. Vast wealth from wealthy families and governments concentrates in private schools while 6,600 public schools don't even get their minimum funding. 68053
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 13/08/2026Public funds should mean a public stake. If governments are going to commit billions of dollars of our money to keep Tomago afloat, the Australian people should own a piece. 45624
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 11/08/2026Whether it’s gambling companies who want to keep advertising to our kids, or coal and gas polluters clinging to their fuel subsidies, big corporations know they can lobby governments to let them keep making money - whatever the cost. Is it any wonder people hate politicians? 27037
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 10/08/2026Most debts can't be pursued after 6 years. But Centrelink will hound welfare recipients for decades for debts that are often totally invented. The Robodebt Royal Commission recommended reinstating the 6-year limit on welfare debt recovery - Labor should get on with it. 25126
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 08/08/2026In related news, ex WA Labor premier Mark McGowan met with ALP national secretary Paul Erickson in Canberra this week. McGowan "consults" for APM, a private equity-owned JSP which makes about $600 million a year from Labor's privatised employment system. It's ALP mates all the way down. 98367
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 07/08/2026Labor is firing back up its cooked welfare penalties system despite multiple findings of illegality and dysfunction and no evidence those problems have been fixed. And who's administering these penalties? The profiteering providers generating investor returns from human misery. 1414493
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 31/07/2026Sport and private equity do not mix. FIFA’s secret deal to sell out the World Cup to billionaire investors further jeopardises the integrity of the sport. Football belongs to the fans and the players, and shouldn’t be up for sale. 4155
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 23/07/2026It’s good that the head of Marist has stood aside and that the school is commissioning an external review of workplace culture. I’ve also requested a formal review from the Department of Education into whether it’s appropriate for Marist to continue to receive Commonwealth funding. 0135
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 23/07/2026The allegations against Marist College Ashgrove are awful. Female teachers have reported being sexually harassed and intimidated by students, incidents the school has shrugged off. Misogyny has no place in schools – especially one that’s banked $162m in govt funding over the decade. 14625
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 22/07/2026Two completely unrelated images, I’m sure. So glad our democracy can be bought 🙂 03613
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 22/07/2026CICTAR’s damning report reveals just how crooked the employment services system really is. Ever wonder what those “employment providers” do with all the money the Government gives them to harass you? Donate it back to politicians! 1/2 25822
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 20/07/2026Caring for our fellow Australians should always be the top priority – not private corporations’ profit, and certainly not Government cost-cutting. And yet, Labor has over-relied on automation, algorithms and AI purely so they can fluff out their budget margins. 1/2 22110
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 08/07/2026Our community expects our social security system to provide enough for us to live a decent life, but too many of us can't afford rising costs of mortgages and rents on Centrelink payments that the government keeps far too low. 1/3 12817
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 06/07/2026Some aged care providers are gouging residents for services they don't provide or telling them that opt-in fees are mandatory. Labor's letting the market rip and older people are paying the price. Is it any wonder American private equity vultures are circling the sector? 35023
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 02/07/2026Labor’s failed aged care reforms have copped another whack from the Senate These disastrous reforms are unravelling piece by piece. Minister Rae is clearly out of his depth, and older people are paying for it, sometimes with their lives. 13418
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 01/07/2026Helen O'Sullivan, a grandmother and member of the Gaza Flotilla, was arrested yesterday in Brisbane under the Qld LNP's draconian anti-free speech laws. Solidarity with Helen and everyone else charged for opposing Israel's genocide and fighting for Palestinian freedom. 10194109
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 01/07/2026By allowing Palantir to embed itself in defence & security agencies Labor is welcoming AI-powered far-right extremism with open arms. Palantir says it has a "moral debt" to serve US military interests - how are Australians made any safer by letting them get their hooks in us? 28035
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 30/06/2026The Christian Brothers have billions of dollars in property and their schools have banked over $1.5 billion in public funding over the last decade - but apparently they can’t afford to compensate survivors of child sexual abuse? The lack of accountability is shocking. 22216
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 29/06/2026The fossil fuel industry is a death cult - and they're spending millions to smuggle their propaganda into our classrooms. We need an inquiry to find out how these tax-dodging multinationals are allowed to try to brainwash our kids into believing their deadly lies. 612049
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 29/06/2026Redeemer Baptist School has pocketed $53 million in combined funding from state and federal governments over the past decade. Yet they’re not subject to the same rules and conditions as public schools. Why are we subsidising a private school that treats kids like this? 22210
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 26/06/2026The Inspector-General is right. Labor's aged care reforms are undermining the human rights of older Australians. The government needs to listen to experts, providers, unions and advocates, eliminate copayments and fully fund home support. 23310
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 25/06/2026Groundbreaking proposal from billionaire Murdoch’s mouthpiece: have we tried going after everyday people? Hey, NewsCorp, here’s a better way to get free up billions: Pay your taxes. Tax the 1%. Tax gas exports. Let’s make the big end of town pay their fair share. 02816
Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 24/06/2026Under the NDIS people with MND are able to access around $300k a year for their complex needs. It’s often not enough. But if you’re diagnosed with MND over 65, the most you can get in an aged care package is $78k. It's utterly absurd. 46638