While they wouldn’t normally be caught dead together, Pauline Hanson, Fatima Payman and Dai Le have held a joint press conference to take aim at the prime minister.
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The Greens lost two seats in the lower house, with their other two on a knife’s edge. Trumpet of Patriots and One Nation also failed to impress.
Multicultural policy is adrift in the election campaign, with the major parties refusing to commit to the changes needed to minimise mounting community tensions
Wednesday in the Senate saw one of the ugliest incidents in recent memory in that chamber. Which lead to Senator Lidia Thorpe being temporarily suspended.
Senator Fatima Payman, launched her new political party Australia’s Voice pitching strongly at the large number of voters who are disillusioned with the big parties.
Federal parliament has split on partisan lines over the Middle East crisis, just a day after the anniversary of the Hamas atrocities against Israelis.
The former Labor Senator, now independent, plans to contest the Senate in every state.
Independent Senator David Pocock will seek to remove the discretion of the prime minister to decide the number of extra staff crossbenchers receive.
Cost of living pressures continue to hit the Labor government in the polls.
Senator Fatima Payman, who quit Labor last week to sit as a crossbench independent, says she would advise Muslims not to form their own political party.
The now-independent senator joined the podcast to discuss her decision, the challenges of regrouping as a crossbencher, and the impact of the Muslim vote.
The most serious challenges for Australia’s political system and social cohesion are not the prospect of a Muslim party or political movement.
Labor’s solidarity pledge is effective and necessary - and has been so for more than 100 years. But it only works properly if MPs can freely voice their concerns and disagreements in caucus.
According to a report in The Australian, senior Labor figures are now raising questions about Payman’s eligibility to sit in parliament because she could be a dual citizen.
Senator Fatima Payman announced on Thursday she was quitting her party in a move that will leave divisions and wounds that will not be healed easily or soon.
The Western Australian senator will sit on the crossbench after refusing to accept party solidarity on the Gaza war.
Anthony Albanese has flagged he expects rebel Labor senator Fatima Payman to quit the Labor Party imminently.
The Australian Labor Party has been around for more than a century. In that time, very few MPs have crossed the floor. Why does it matter so much that one did?
Rebel Senator Fatima Payman has escalated her confrontation with the Labor Party by claiming “some members” are trying to intimidate her into quitting the Senate.
On Sunday, Albanese summoned recalcitrant senator Fatima Payman to the Lodge and told her she was suspended from caucus until she accepted caucus discipline.
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