The Western Australian senator Fatima Payman has quit the Labor party in a major rupture with the Albanese government over Palestine.
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But she’s not leaving parliament: Payman will stay on in the upper house as an independent, sitting on the crossbench. These are the moments that led to her decision to resign from her party

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