Good afternoon. The prime minister defended the decision to indefinitely suspend Senator Fatima Payman from the Labor caucus after she vowed she would cross the floor in support of Palestine again.
Anthony Albanese accused Labor’s youngest senator of disrupting the government’s message on a day its stage-three tax cuts rolled out. The Labor MP Anne Aly said she hoped Payman remained in the party, while Barnaby Joyce criticised the Labor pledge requiring all party MPs and senators to vote in line as a 130-year-old “relic”.
