Rogue Labor senator Fatima Payman is being advised by controversial election strategist Glenn Druery.
The prime minister’s remarks came hours after senior minister Bill Shorten extended an olive branch to Payman,saying she could come back into the fold later.
The prime minister and the young Muslim senator are at loggerheads as Payman says she has been told to resign.
It was Fatima Payman’s third strike against caucus solidarity,but Labor is likely to face blow-back from Muslim Australians.
The decision was made after an explosive TV interview given by the senator on Sunday morning.
Payman is not the first young woman of colour to have crossed the establishment and sparked fury. And there will be more like her in the party’s future.
Penny Wong has rebuked senator Fatima Payman for crossing the floor,with the foreign minister pointing out she had had to vote against same-sex marriage before Labor changed its position.
The Greens are planning another motion that will test Labor’s unity over the war in Gaza after Labor senator Fatima Payman’s decision to vote to recognise Palestinian statehood.
Labor senator Fatima Payman has become the party’s first member to cross the floor in decades after she voted with the Greens to recognise Palestinian statehood in a vote on Tuesday.
Labor’s WA senator Fatima Payman has demanded the Albanese government recognise Palestine.
The senator also stepped down from two parliamentary foreign affairs committees last week after comments accusing Israel of conducting a “genocide” in Gaza.