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Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Fatima Payman quits Labor with ‘heavy heart but a clear conscience’

Senator Fatima Payman has quit the Labor party to sit on the crossbench, declaring she was acting with “a heavy heart but a clear conscience”.

Payman, whom Anthony Albanese suspended from caucus on Sunday over her refusal to accept party solidarity, told a Thursday news conference she had been “deeply torn”.


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