A day after the prime minister summoned Fatima Payman to The Lodge, the 29-year-old claimed she had lost contact with her colleagues.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has told renegade Senator Fatima Payman she should consider quitting the senate and handing back her seat to Labor, fuelling her growing anger at her exile from the party.
If she were to quit, the WA Labor Party would be able to parachute in a new Labor senator to replace the first-term backbencher whose refusal to vote with the party forces the government to seek an extra crossbench vote to pass bills in the upper house. Mahmud Hawila, a barrister and adviser to the collective said former Labor and Liberal operatives had already been recruited for strategy, polling and door knocking had begun and the groups planned to run candidates in seats such as NSW seats Blaxland, Watson and Werriwa and the Melbourne sea of Wills, and possibly others.“The way the prime minister has treated her is disgusting”.
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