Anthony Albanese has revealed Fatima Payman will not attend Labor’s caucus for the rest of the parliamentary fortnight, despite earlier suggestions the senator would face no punishment for her decision to cross the floor and vote in favour of recognising Palestinian statehood.
On Wednesday the deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, said “there’s not going to be any expulsion or anything of that kind” for senator Payman, who is the first federal Labor parliamentarian to cross the floor since 2005.