Fatima Payman has leveraged Gaza anger to deliver stinging rebuke to Labor

The rebel senator’s hint she might set up her own grouping will harden suspicions that her actions have been less than spontaneous

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Fatima Payman has resolved speculation about her status and split from the Labor Party. But it feels like the start of something, not the end.

Quitting Labor on Thursday but staying in the Senate as an independent, Payman answered many of the questions that ricocheted off her defiant weekend television interview and subsequent indefinite suspension from the party’s parliamentary caucus. Continue reading...


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