For the second time in this sitting session Fatima Payman has stolen the agenda and derailed the government’s attempts to spruik cost-of-living relief.
Monday, July 1, he said, would be a rare opportunity in that a significant number of cost-of-living measures would begin.These include the $107 billion in revamped stage three tax cuts, the $3.5 billion in power bill discounts for homes and small businesses, pay rises for 2.6 million award workers, cheaper medicines thanks to a freeze on prescription medicine prices, and new parents getting an extra two weeks of government-paid leave.
With the cost of living being the key issue that is occupying the minds of voters and hurting the government, the prime minister exhorted his charges to “get out there and campaign”.to back a stunt by the Greens in the form of a non-binding motion to recognise the state of Palestine.on Sunday showed she’s happy to do so again, including on July 1, regardless of the consequences.
It is difficult to overstate the anger among Labor MPs towards Payman, who declared last week caucus was not “homogenous”, when its rules state that all must abide by the majority view, and that she should be able to vote on conscience. “Everyone in Labor has had to vote for something that they haven’t wanted to at some stage in their career,” observed one angry MP.may be defensible if she were clinging to life in a marginal seat and needed to make a statement. In fact, she is the very opposite, a privileged senator with no constituents, five years left on her term, has never spent a day in opposition and is in no electoral danger whatsoever.
Albanese faced a dilemma. If Payman was given a proper suspension or even expelled, it risked worsening Labor’s standing with the Arab-Australian voters so critical in areas like western Sydney, as well as those in the Left who believe the Australian Senate can bring peace to the Middle East.Payman, who said she’d cross the floor again if the same motion was put, had put her leader in the most invidious of positions and Greens leader Adam Bandt was licking his lips.
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