Former Labor senator Stephen Conroy has lashed Senator Payman as a “Labor rat” and called on her to resign after she sided with the Greens in a motion to sanction Israel on Tuesday.
Senator Fatima Payman has been branded a" Labor rat" for siding with the Greens in a failed Senate motion to sanction Israel after quitting the ALP in June.
“If she comes back to Labor, she should campaign on these issues in the state of Western Australia and see if she can get more than a couple hundred votes – good luck to her, but she’s a Labor rat.” Liberal MP Zoe McKenzie said the Greens actions in the Senate were “disgraceful” as they were causing division in the community. Picture: Sky News Australia
It comes amid plans for the government to create new"special visa pathways" for Palestinians who fled Gaza upon the outbreak of war in October last year. In a poll conducted by Reuters last month, two-thirds of Palestinians backed the Hamas terror attack against Israelis on October 7, which led to more than 1110 deaths and hundreds of hostages taken into Gaza.
Greens Foreign Affairs spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John demanded the Australian government to cancel defence contracts with Israel.
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