Labor’s Fatima Payman defects to crossbench as government worries about Muslim vote
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Senator Fatima Payman, who announced on Thursday she was quitting her party, has now officially joined that well-known club of “Labor rats” – those who have been thrown overboard or jumped ship.
Notable past members include then prime minister Billy Hughes, expelled during the first world war conscription crisis, and Joe Lyons, a...





