The decision was made after crisis talks with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the Lodge in Canberra.
Labor senator Fatima Payman has been indefinitely suspended from the Labor caucus after crisis talks with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the Lodge in Canberra.
Labor senator Fatima Payman leaves the Lodge in Canberra on Sunday afternoon after being suspended from caucus by Anthony Albanese.Asked if she had been expelled from the ALP, Payman said “no” but did not take any further questions. A source close to the senator not permitted to speak on the record said she was now considering her future with Labor and had received a “stern” talking to from the prime minister.
Albanese told Payman during their meeting that he, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, Senate leader Penny Wong and her deputy Don Farrell had signed off on the suspension after her television interview on Sunday morning.But if the Greens brought the same motion recognising a Palestinian state back to parliament, she said: “I would cross the floor.
“When I made the decision on the Senate floor to cross, I did it with the understanding that this could lead to expulsion and costing my Labor membership.” “We will be having discussions over the coming days about what we intend to do this week,” he said. “I hope Labor does not continue to put further pressure on Senator Payman, but instead listens to the urgency with which she and others are speaking about the situation in Gaza right now.”Payman’s decision to cross the floor last Tuesday came in the ninth month of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
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