The rebel senator’s hint she might set up her own grouping will harden suspicions that her actions have been less than spontaneous
Fatima Payman has resolved speculation about her status and split from the Labor party. But it feels like the start of something, not the end., Payman answered many of the questions that ricocheted off her defiant weekend television interview and subsequent indefinite suspension from the party’s parliamentary caucus.
She’s run rings around her own party and left the Labor leadership firmly of the view that there was more orchestration to the sequence of events than the senator has acknowledged.watching the horrendous war in Gaza roll on and on and wanting their government to do more to try to stop it.in the Senate to vote for a motion orchestrated by the Greens to recognise a Palestinian state knowing what that could mean and taking advice on it before she did.
Payman described being “deeply torn” between the ordinary Labor members and unionists – through whose ranks she rose in the party – who had urged her to hang in there and fight for change from within, and her inability to accept the caucus rules that say she must support collective decisions.
In suggesting Labor no longer defended “the common people against bullies, intimidators and exploiters”, she implied some of those colleagues had engaged in the practices themselves. Complaining of being ostracised since last week’s vote, and especially since the weekend, she said they had offered “pseudo empathy” – something that has hurt and perplexed those who have tried to reach out.
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