A Labor branch in Anthony Albanese’s own electorate has passed a motion expressing support for the dissident senator Fatima Payman, even as expectations grow she is poised to quit the party.
At least six Labor branches have now passed motions backing Payman in the past 48 hours, in a sign that some of the party’s rank-and-file members may be more forgiving of her breach of caucus solidarity rules than her fellow MPs and senators.
Federal Labor parliamentarians on Tuesday endorsed Albanese’s move to indefinitely suspend Payman from the caucus after the Western Australian senator, 29, warned she was prepared to cross the floor again on Palestinian statehood.
When the unamended motion was put to a vote, Payman crossed the floor to support it - a form of dissent that has historically been treated harshly by Labor, which has longstanding rules to uphold collective decisions.
Anthony D’Adam, a NSW upper house MP and spokesperson for the Labor Friends of Palestine group, said the federal party “needs to listen to Fatima Payman, not punish her”.
He argued Payman had “taken a brave and principled stand for Labor policy that was agreed collectively and democratically at the party’s highest level of decision making: the 2023 national conference”.
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A Labor branch in Anthony Albanese’s own electorate has passed a motion expressing support for the dissident senator Fatima Payman, even as expectations grow she is poised to quit the party.
At least six Labor branches have now passed motions backing Payman in the past 48 hours, in a sign that some of the party’s rank-and-file members may be more forgiving of her breach of caucus solidarity rules than her fellow MPs and senators.
Federal Labor parliamentarians on Tuesday endorsed Albanese’s move to indefinitely suspend Payman from the caucus after the Western Australian senator, 29, warned she was prepared to cross the floor again on Palestinian statehood.
When the unamended motion was put to a vote, Payman crossed the floor to support it - a form of dissent that has historically been treated harshly by Labor, which has longstanding rules to uphold collective decisions.
Anthony D’Adam, a NSW upper house MP and spokesperson for the Labor Friends of Palestine group, said the federal party “needs to listen to Fatima Payman, not punish her”.
He argued Payman had “taken a brave and principled stand for Labor policy that was agreed collectively and democratically at the party’s highest level of decision making: the 2023 national conference”.
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