'Making history today': Fatima Payman becomes parliament's first hijab-wearing Muslim woman

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'Making history today': Fatima Payman becomes parliament's first hijab-wearing Muslim woman
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Fatima Payman has won Western Australia's sixth and final Senate seat, becoming the first Afghan Australian and the first hijab-wearing Muslim woman in parliament. Read more here:

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In her early years, her father worked around the clock as a kitchen hand, a security guard and a taxi driver. Her mother looked after the family before starting her own small business of providing driving lessons.

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