Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe backed the West Australian independent and appeared to throw papers at Hanson in an extraordinary moment of direct confrontation.
Independent senator Fatima Payman has launched a furious attack on fellow senator Pauline Hanson by accusing the One Nation leader of racism, halting Senate business for the debate and bringing Labor and the Coalition together to try to stop the crossbench dispute.
Victorian independent senator Lidia Thorpe backed Payman and called Hanson a “racist” as she appeared to throw throw papers at the One Nation leader in an extraordinary moment of direct confrontation between crossbench senators. Independent senator Lidia Thorpe throws papers towards One Nation senator Pauline Hanson, as independent senator Fatima Payman watches on.Hanson won the vote to allow her to table the documents after Labor, the Coalition and independent senator Jacqui Lambie gave her support to do so. The Greens and Thorpe sided with Payman, who quit the Labor Party in July and now sits as an independent.
Liberal frontbencher Anne Ruston stepped in to calm the debate by saying Hanson had followed the proper process in the upper house, indicating the Coalition would support her if the matter came to a vote.
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