Labor parliamentarians have backed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s decision to indefinitely suspend Senator Fatima Payman from the caucus after she went against the party line to support Palestinian statehood.
The suspension came as a response to Ms. Payman’s interview with ABC’s Insiders on June 30, in which the Afghan-born Australian politician said she would cross the floor in the Senate again to vote for a motion calling for the recognition of a Palestinian state.
