Anthony Albanese said Fatima Payman disrupted the government's messages around cost of living relief by conducting an interview to declare she would cross the floor again to vote in support of Palestinian statehood.
Labor senator Fatima Payman says she will abstain from voting in the Senate and use the time to reflect on her future, adding that the prime minister's decision to indefinitely suspend her from the Labor party caucus has left her "exiled".
'Caucus' is the collective term to describe the parliamentary Labor party — in other words, the Labor members in parliament. The caucus has its own rules for electing party leaders in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. It elects members to serve in the cabinet and the ministry, but the prime minister allocates individual portfolios.
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