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Teacher. Unionist. Green. Senator for QLD. Living on stolen land. She/they. Contacts: https://linktr.ee/pennyallmanpayne Authorised by P. Allman-Payne, The Greens, 20-22 Herbert St, Gladstone, QLD 4680
Every Australian can see what's happening in Iran on their screens. Schoolgirls ripped to shreds. Hospitals flattened. Rivers of fire. Acid rain.
THIS is what Labor has committed Australia to. An historically immoral and illegal crime with apocalyptic consequences.
In little more than a week Labor has gone from providing political cover, to dragging Australian personnel into US war crimes to now putting troops on the ground.
Australians DO NOT WANT THIS.
Labor must stop this madness and call for US and Israel to end their illegal war.
There is no exit strategy. No plan. Just chaos and destruction and bloodshed.
More than 1000 people have been killed in Iran - and ~500 in Lebanon - while schools, energy and water infrastructure are being destroyed.
This is what Albanese and Labor is committing Australia to.
Labor has dragged Australia into another US forever war.
There's nothing "defensive" about this. The US-Israel bombardment of Iran is an illegal war of aggression that is fast spiralling out of control.
Committing Australian resources to this is a costly and deadly mistake.
Labor says they're worried about the safety of Australians in the Middle East. They claim to be concerned about civilian deaths and the chaos that's unfolding.
Well, maybe they should have thought about that before they were first out the gate to endorse Trump's illegal war.
Children’s graves dug for Trump’s and Netanyahu’s war. This image speaks a terrible truth in answer to Labor’s lies about this awful war they support.
How do billionaires manage to accumulate such obscene wealth? Because of this 👇
The mega rich simply buy political parties and policy outcomes to entrench their power and status while wages fall and life for millions of Australians gets harder.
It's time we taxed them.
Penny Wong was asked if the Australian Government believes that Trump's war on Iran - which Labor supports - was illegal. She couldn't answer.
This is Australia under the ALP: providing political cover for a rogue state while it wreaks chaos and death across the world.
The solution to division and extremism is not to ban protests, suppress free speech and follow the far right down their dark hole.
The solution is to meaningfully tackle inequality. That starts with taxing the super rich and big corporations and giving people their power back.
The rise of the far right across the Global North follows a consistent pattern: decades of worsening living standards overseen by a captured political establishment whose role is to manage decline while transferring state assets and wealth into the hands of an untouchable elite.
Australians are at each others' throats because life is getting harder and crueller for millions of people.
Labor shares the blame for this - and they have no plans to fix it. That's why they're pointing the finger at the Greens and anti-genocide protests and Grace Tame.
Watching the ABC investigation into gay hate crimes last night was horrific.
Teens hunted, lured and bashed on film in homophobic attacks in Sydney - this is unforgivable, and it signals real, present danger for queer people in Australia.
The PM calling Grace Tame, a woman fighting for the safety of children, “difficult” is completely unwarranted.
Labelling women as difficult won’t silence us. It won’t stop us speaking truth to power.
Next time try “unbreakable” or “warrior” or “fierce”, Prime Minister.
Labor and the Coalition’s new hate laws mean you are guilty until proven innocent - this is not how a free society is meant to work www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Labor and the LNP have waged war on the working class, grinding public services to dust while pushing wages down and enriching a tiny clique of elites.
If Labor wants to defeat division and extremism they should stop dog whistling to the right and start tackling inequality.
Amnesty reporting further escalation from the Iranian Regime, "warning of the risk of further bloodshed amid the internet blackout, providing cover for security forces who commit grave violations." Governments cut the internet, throw blankets over their actions, when those actions are criminal.
They should not have invited Herzog to Australia. Now the police are saying they have concerns about how his visit will cause “significant animosity”.
The Albanese Government needs to withdraw this invitation now!
The Greens are ready to work with the government to pass gun laws next week.
The rest of the omnibus bill however needs too much reworking to meet community concerns.
We need to keep all people in the community safe from discrimination and hatred, but good laws don’t come from rushed work.
Labor is rushing a 144-page omnibus mess through parliament with just 48 hours for public submissions. Communities are fearful this is designed to criminalize people calling out genocide in Gaza. You have my word that we won't let Labor silence dissent.
Queensland communities are reeling again from more devastating flooding. Homes, businesses and livestock have been lost, and towns are cut off.
With rain still falling in many parts of the state, the crisis is far from over. People need urgent support.
Catastrophic flooding is now an annual event in Queensland. Climate change is heating the oceans, causing more frequent and extreme weather events.
It’s never been clearer: we must end new coal and gas, transition to renewables and invest in climate adaptation nationwide.
Queensland communities are reeling again from more devastating flooding. Homes, businesses and livestock have been lost, and towns are cut off.
With rain still falling in many parts of the state, the crisis is far from over. People need urgent support.
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Please donate if you can.
And demand climate action now.
(More resources in next post)
Rich private schools are gouging parents with huge fee increases while also pocketing millions a year in govt money – yet 98% of public schools don’t get their minimum funding.
Should Labor be pouring billions a year into the private system while public schools are underfunded?
The brutal shootings in Sydney last night have shaken the nation. Hanukkah should be a time of peace and reflection for the Jewish community, but that has been shattered by this senseless killing.
Now is the time for us all to come together. We can not let this hatred divide us.
The Greens think it’s time the government stopped treating older people like pawns, and started ensuring that our parents and grandparents get the care and dignity they deserve.
If you agree, add your name to our campaign: greens.org.au/aged-care-now
Over a quarter of a million older Australians are in the queue waiting for aged care in total.
And at the same time, 1 in 3 big corporations in Australia get away with paying $0 in tax. That shows something is seriously wrong.
For months, state and territories have been sounding the alarm about this as they haggle with the feds about hospital funding.
Unfortunately, it looks like Labor have ignored this call and today’s health meeting will go by without a solution for these stranded Australians.
I wrote to the Health Minister Mark Butler earlier this week, urging him to end his government’s policy of shortages of Aged Care at today’s meeting of Health Ministers.
Thousands of older Australians are stranded right now in hospital beds due to a shortage of aged care.
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