Senator’s departure disappointing to ‘thousands of rank-and-file ALP and union members and Labor supporters’
Labor’s Friends of Palestine group has warned of “a chasm” between the Albanese government and “huge swathes of the party’s traditional base” as it described, to remain in the upper house as an independent, pro-Palestine campaigners complained that Payman had been placed “in an untenable position” by the federal leadership team.ramped up his criticism of Payman on Friday, disputing her comments that she felt she had “exhausted” channels to raise her concerns inside party forums.
Payman said on Thursday that she had attempted to raise concerns through internal party processes and in direct conversations with Albanese and senior ministers, but felt that decisions were “already made” by the time they were brought to caucus meetings for formal approval. “This event confirms the retreat by the federal Labor leadership from policy voted into the platform by the party’s highest decision-making body: the 2023 national conference,” the group said in a statement.
But the Labor Friends of Palestine group contends that the caveat about a peace process amounts to indefinitely delaying recognition of Palestinian statehood.
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