WA senator tells press conference she was ‘deeply torn’ amid disagreement with the Albanese government on PalestineFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe outspoken Western Australian senator Fatima Payman has quit the Labor party but will stay in the upper house as an independent in a major rupture with the Albanese government over Palestine.Payman, who had already been indefinitely suspended from Labor’s federal parliamentary caucus after warning that she was prepared to cross the floor again, announced on Thursday she had resigned from the party.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...
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