Labor MP Breaks Party Ranks, Calls on PM to Back Palestine

Her words clash directly with recent remarks by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who has criticised the phrase, ‘from the river to the sea.’

WA Senator Fatima Payman (R) attends a parliament session at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on July 26, 2022. STR/AFP via Getty Images

A Labor senator has broken party ranks and called for the prime minister to brand Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip genocide.

Western Australia’s Fatima Payman, the first Afghan-Australian Muslim woman in Parliament, issued a strong rebuke of her government’s stance on May 15, which is also Nakba Day.