It was Fatima Payman’s third strike against caucus solidarity but Labor is likely to face blow-back from Muslim Australians.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party leadership team have made the right decision by indefinitely suspending Senator Fatima Payman from the caucus.until she is ready to respect the party’s iron law of solidarity, Labor now faces two new problems — one in parliament and one in the broader community.Senator Fatima Payman leaves the Lodge in Canberra on Sunday afternoon after being suspended from caucus by Anthony Albanese.
By acting as he had to, Albanese and Labor are likely to face blow-back from Muslim Australians and in the community more broadly. Fairly or unfairly, some voters will interpret this as Labor siding with Israel over the Palestinian people, regardless of the fact that a non-binding motion in the Senate will have zero impact on the war in Gaza.
That could have a material impact on Labor’s vote in half-a-dozen of seats in Melbourne and Sydney, where the suspension of a 29-year-old, hijab-wearing first-term senator — voting in accordance with her conscience — will be about as popular as a bucket of cold vomit.
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