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[Labor senator] Fatima Payman says she's been 'exiled' and is 'reflecting on future' within Labor (www.sbs.com.au)

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Anthony Albanese said Fatima Payman disrupted the government's messages around cost of living relief by conducting an interview to declare she would cross the floor again to vote in support of Palestinian statehood.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It's not quite the same thing, because she chose to become an independent, she didn't get forced out by the Greens saying you must agree with the party line or else.

I genuinely don't know if the Greens would have done the same thing, because it didn't come to that.