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Labor senator Fatima Payman has been indefinitely suspended from the Labor caucus following her defiance over Palestine. Senator Payman was barred from a Labor caucus meeting after crossing the floor to support a Greens motion supporting Palestinian statehood. The first-term senator says she will not quit the party but is refusing to back down regardless of the consequences.
so I believe that I’ve been abiding by those principles of the party.” Labor Party members are expected to vote as a bloc and crossing the floor is a no-go under internal rules, but there are no mandated sanctions for defiant MPs. Although convention dictates a person is expelled from the party room, the decision is supposed to be made by caucus rather than a leader’s directive. Senator Payman said some of her parliamentary colleagues had given her the “cold shoulder” but most were supportive.
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