Anthony Albanese has said senator Fatima Payman has \u201cmade a decision to place herself outside the Labor party\u201d, and suggested he expects that Payman may resign from the party \u201cin the coming days\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The prime minister made the comment about Payman\u2019s future on Wednesday after the Western Australian senator was suspended indefinitely after crossing the floor on recognition of Palestine<\/a>, which she has vowed to repeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Payman has\u00a0claimed she has been \u201cexiled\u201d by the party and colleagues<\/a>\u00a0since voting with the Greens on recognition of Palestine. But\u00a0talks between Payman, minor party political strategist Glenn Druery<\/a>\u00a0and Muslim groups planning to run against Labor MPs have left her colleagues convinced she plans to quit the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anthony Albanese has said senator Fatima Payman has \u201cmade a decision to place herself outside the Labor party\u201d, and suggested he expects that Payman may resign from the party \u201cin the coming days\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The prime minister made the comment about Payman\u2019s future on Wednesday after the Western Australian senator was suspended indefinitely after crossing the floor on recognition of Palestine<\/a>, which she has vowed to repeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Payman has\u00a0claimed she has been \u201cexiled\u201d by the party and colleagues<\/a>\u00a0since voting with the Greens on recognition of Palestine. But\u00a0talks between Payman, minor party political strategist Glenn Druery<\/a>\u00a0and Muslim groups planning to run against Labor MPs have left her colleagues convinced she plans to quit the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you join a political party and they pay to have you elected being the Senate or the House of representatives in Canberra, you owe a duty to that party. This is a terrible outcome for the people of WA and she should be made to forfeit her seat if she leaves the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Extracts from the Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prime minister says the Western Australian senator has made \u2018decision to place herself outside the Labor party\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":78214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[9031,5982,11147],"class_list":["post-78213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-canberra","tag-fatima-payman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78215,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78213\/revisions\/78215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}