BREAKING NEWS AUSTRALIAN SENATOR DEFIES PARTY & VOTES FOR PALESTINION STATE
June 25, 2024BREAKING NEWS!!
For the FIRST TIME SINCE 1986, the Australian Labor senator Fatima Payman has crossed the floor of the Senate, voting in support of a Greens motion on recognising Palestinian statehood in a move that imperils her party membership.
While Coalition backbenchers are allowed to cross the floor, the Labor Party requires all of its parliamentarians to support collective decisions or face the possibility of expulsion. Some Labor members to have crossed the floor have been expelled from the party and others have been suspended.
Payman, a first-term senator for Western Australia, later described it as the “most difficult decision” she has had to make.
She told reporters it was the party’s “prerogative” what would happen next, but she would like to continue serving as a Labor senator. Payman said she believed she had “upheld the Party ethos and called for what the Party’s platform has stipulated”.
“Each step I took across the Senate floor felt like a mile, [but] I know I did not walk these steps by myself, and I know I did not walk them alone,” Payman told reporters.
“I’ve walked with the West Australians who have stopped me in the streets and told me not to give up. I’ve walked with the rank-and-file Labor party members who told me we must do more. I’ve worked with the core values of the Labor party equality, justice, fairness and advocacy for the voiceless and the oppressed.”
WHAT A COURAGEOUS MOVE!!
We support you senatorfatimapayman !
She risked her membership with the Party for JUSTICE.
Bravo!!
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English Script:
Fatima Payman: Honestly, everyone who would ask me until today what I was going to do with this motion. I said I would follow my conscience and I will, you know, I’m in the hands of God, and I will do what’s best for, the people that I represent and that I’ve pledged to represent when I got elected two years ago.
