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Labor senator Fatima Payman says each step ‘felt like a mile’ after crossing floor to back Palestine motion

First-term senator risks membership after voting against her party by supporting motion on Palestinian statehood

The Guardian - AU

Labor senator crosses floor for Palestine, risks exile

A defiant Fatima Payman voted in line with her convictions to support Palestinian statehood as she risked her spot as a Labor senator to do so.

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Labor senator Fatima Payman calls on government to ‘recognise Palestine’ in rebuke to Albanese

Party were ‘fierce champions of Palestine’ in opposition and they must ‘summon that spirit of old’, she writes for Al Jazeera

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Australia 'gravely concerned' at Israel-Gaza war crimes

An inquiry into the Israel-Hamas war that found both sides have committed war crimes has been branded "gravely concerning" by Australia.

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Senator who broke ranks on Palestine to speak at rally

Fatima Payman will make her most prominent appearance in weeks when she speaks out on the invasion of Gaza in one of many rallies across the country.

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Budget replies reveal Coalition ‘all over the shop’, PM says, labelling Dutton’s nuclear policy ‘shocking’ – as it happened

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Fatima Payman says use of politically charged phrase is not antisemitic

Exclusive: Labor senator breaks silence to insist ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ is not a call for annihilation of Jews

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Coalition senator accuses Labor’s Fatima Payman of ‘supporting terrorists’ before withdrawing claim

Comments come just hours after Senate passes motion urging senators to ‘engage in debate and commentary respectfully’

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Senator's Palestine remark ignites fiery debate

A Labor senator who accused Israel of genocide against Palestinians has been rebuked by the government and opposition but backed by party members.

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Labor MP issues explosive call for PM to back Palestine

Fatima Payman has split with Labor colleagues and issued a scathing rebuke of the prime minister as she called for more action to protect Palestinians.

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Fatima Payman accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza in significant rupture with Labor party position

WA senator says ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ – a phrase Anthony Albanese argues is counter to two-state solution

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Gareth Evans tells Labor to ‘get off the fence’ and restart UNRWA funding to help ease Gaza crisis

Former Labor foreign minister says $6m in emergency funding should be released immediately as Canada and Sweden have done

The Guardian - AU

Labor backbenchers stand with Greens to call for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza

Maria Vamvakinou and Fatima Payman joined by Coalition’s Mark Coulton to receive petitions signed by thousands of Australians

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Australian ministers say Palestinians are being ‘collectively punished’ for Hamas barbarism

Ed Husic backed by fellow Labor frontbencher Anne Aly who says Israel ‘could be investigated’ for alleged war crimes

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'Not now, not ever': 10 years on from the misogyny speech

Much has been said about the speech in the decade since Julia Gillard rose to her feet to deliver it, but what does it mean to those now inside the building? To those who've watched the political world change around them, and those just entering it for the first time?

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Senators challenge the status quo

Labor senator Fatima Payman and Jacqui Lambie Network senator Tammy Tyrrell have used their first speeches to call for greater diversity in politics.

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No forsaking Afghanistan a year on: Senate

Senators have pledged to keep pressure on the Taliban to uphold the rights and freedoms of the Afghan people a year on from the fall of the capital Kabul.

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Labor's newest senator Fatima Payman is blazing trails and she hopes others will follow

Fatima Payman's Parliament House office was once occupied by Tony Abbott and Clive Palmer. Pauline Hanson also took a first that should have been hers. She's hoping her arrival in parliament will offer a "beacon of hope" to other young women.

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The Conversation

5 years on, would an outspoken Australian-Muslim activist 'get Yassmined?' Abdel-Magied herself hopes change is happening

Does Australia still have a racism problem? Or does it simply suffer from a diversity and inclusion problem at the level of governance and political representation? Answering these questions is rarely straightforward and always depends on the personal experiences and ethno-religious backgrounds of those asking.

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Final Senate results: Labor, the Greens and David Pocock will have a majority of senators

The final buttons to electronically distribute preferences for the Senate were pressed in NSW, Victoria and Western Australia on Monday. I wrote about the distribution of preferences in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania on Saturday, and the climate activist’s David Pocock’s ACT Senate victory on Tuesday.

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The Loop: True size of Australia's Omicron wave, State of Origin (for budgets), and world's biggest fish found

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‘I want to normalise hijab wearing’: WA’s newest Labor senator on making history

Fatima Payman is unbothered by the focus on her headscarf covering, saying her identity is ‘Australian first’

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First hijab-wearing woman elected for WA

Fatima Payman, a former refugee from Afghanistan, has claimed a Senate seat in WA for Labor as the Australian Electoral Commission finalises the vote count.

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Fatima Payman claims sixth WA Senate seat for Labor as Michaelia Cash reinstated

Fatima Payman will become the first Muslim woman who wears a hijab to sit in Australia’s Parliament after claiming WA's sixth senate seat.

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Will the hateful army who bullied Yassmin Abdel-Magied come after Australia’s diverse new parliamentarians?

Anyone unlucky enough to have the combination of confidence and ‘difference’ will be in for a rough ride

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