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Defiant Payman vows to keep crossing floor on Palestine

But the renegade Labor senator insists she won’t leave the party despite being sanctioned over the vote.

Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Rogue Labor senator Fatima Payman has vowed to defy Anthony Albanese and the party again to express support for Palestine, despite the outrage her decision to cross the floor and back a Greens motion caused among colleagues. But Senator Payman, a rookie MP from Western Australia, insisted she did not intend to leave the Labor Party, although she implied federal caucus MPs were out of step with rank-and-file members.

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