{"id":79120,"date":"2024-07-04T14:16:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=79120"},"modified":"2024-07-04T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:16:15","slug":"why-rogue-senator-fatima-payman-has-450000-reasons-not-to-quit-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=79120","title":{"rendered":"Why rogue senator Fatima Payman has $450,000 reasons not to quit Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rebel Labor MP Fatima Payman has a $450,000 reason why she won\u2019t be quitting politics when she quits the ALP today – she\u2019s just bought a new investment property in Canberra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking a leaf from the practice of dozens of MPs, including the Prime Minister when he was a Labor frontbencher, she\u2019s also charging taxpayers $310 a night to sleep in her own investment property in Canberra in a bid to help pay off the mortgage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rebel Labor MP Fatima Payman has bought a new investment property in Canberra and is charging taxpayers $310 a night to sleep in her own property to help pay off the mortgage. Picture: NewsWire \/ Martin Ollman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WA Senator and newlywed is expected to quit the ALP today over her fight for Palestine, creating a major headache for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the biggest clue that she will remain on the crossbench as an independent MP<\/a>comes in the form of her newly acquired investment property with a mortgage with Macquarie Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like many MPs, she\u2019s offsetting the cost of a Canberra investment property by claiming $310 in nightly travel allowance to sleep in her own investment properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New apartment provides clue to Senator Payman\u2019s future<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the Prime Minister privately telling the rogue ALP recruit that she should hand back her seat to the Labor Party if she plans to quit, the 29-year old Senator\u2019s new apartment suggests there\u2019s no chance of that happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

News.com.au has confirmed that Senator Payman paid $450,000 on June 20, 2023 to purchase a two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment in Canberra\u2019s northern suburbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nine News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rebel Senator Fatima Payman can charge taxpayers an eyewatering amount of money each night to sleep in her own investment property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":79121,"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":[5982,11147],"class_list":["post-79120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-canberra","tag-fatima-payman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79120","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=79120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79122,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79120\/revisions\/79122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}