Deputy PM says now is ‘not the time to be going around expelling people’ as he calls for social cohesion across Australia
Labor senator Fatima Payman walks with independent senator David Pocock as she crosses the floor to support a Greens motion to recognise the state of Palestine.Labor senator Fatima Payman walks with independent senator David Pocock as she crosses the floor to support a Greens motion to recognise the state of Palestine.
Marles said social cohesion in Australia had been placed “under enormous stress” since the Hamas attacks on 7 October and Israel’s military actions in Gaza. Major Muslim organisations around Australia rallied behind Payman. The Australian National Imams Council called her decision to cross the floor “courageous”.
Payman’s decision also drew broad support from Australian Muslim social media pages such as Muslim Votes Matter, who posted that “you don’t need others when you have your principles” superimposed on an image of Payman voting. “That’s a green light for any Labor member or senator,” Ley told reporters in Canberra. “That if they feel strongly enough about something, if their conscience dictates to them strongly enough about something, they can cross the floor too.”The shadow home affairs minister, James Paterson, told Sky News the Greens motion was a “stunt” and it was “extraordinary that a Labor backbencher has decided to vote for it”.
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