{"id":81664,"date":"2024-07-07T16:07:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T06:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=81664"},"modified":"2024-07-07T16:07:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T06:07:41","slug":"mehreen-faruqi-hits-back-at-claims-fatima-paymans-resignation-from-labor-was-orchestrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=81664","title":{"rendered":"Mehreen Faruqi hits back at claims Fatima Payman\u2019s resignation from Labor was orchestrated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The deputy leader of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/australian-greens\">Greens<\/a>, Mehreen Faruqi, has hit back at claims Fatima Payman\u2019s resignation from Labor was orchestrated, insisting that Muslim women are often \u201cstereotyped\u201d as unable to make their own decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faruqi said she had \u201cbeen in touch with Senator Payman over the past few weeks and also way before that\u201d and believed the first-term senator made up her own mind after \u201cfollowing her moral compass\u201d and listening to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very proud of her as another Muslim woman for standing strong on her convictions,\u201d Faruqi told the ABC\u2019s Insiders program on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Payman&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/article\/2024\/jul\/04\/rebel-with-a-cause-inside-the-moment-fatima-payman-quit-the-labor-party\">resigned from the Labor party on Thursday<\/a>, saying she was leaving with a heavy heart but a clear conscience as she argued her own government\u2019s response to the bloodshed in Gaza amounted to indifference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The 29-year-old senator had previously been suspended from Labor\u2019s federal caucus after warning publicly that she might cross the floor a second time to support a motion to immediately recognise Palestine as a state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthony Albanese said on Friday there had been \u201cmeticulous timing of events\u201d and he had \u201cheard a month ago, where this was going to go\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A day before Payman\u2019s resignation, Albanese told parliament he expected \u201cfurther announcements in coming days which will explain exactly what the strategy has been for more than one month now\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Greens leader says Muslim women are often stereotyped in Australia as unable to make solo decisions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":81665,"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":[5982,11147,10044,11279],"class_list":["post-81664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-canberra","tag-fatima-payman","tag-federal-labor-government","tag-mehreen-faruqi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81664","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=81664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81666,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81664\/revisions\/81666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}