Fatima Payman was wrong to split with the Labor Party over a Greens motion recognising Palestinian statehood, a majority of readers surveyed by The Australian Financial Review has found.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Labor have been rocked by the West Australian senator’s decision to cross the floor and quit the party, after weeks of publicly agitating over the Israel-Gaza war.
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Tom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at thomas.mcilroy@afr.com
