Labor senator Fatima Payman has directly addressed Anthony Albanese in a speech criticising Israel over the war in Gaza, asking for sanctions to be imposed.
Labor senator Fatima Payman has broken ranks to accuse Israel of conducting a "genocide" in Gaza and called on the prime minister and her government to sanction the Israeli government while urging her colleagues to "stand for what is right". In a veiled criticism of her party leader, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Senator Payman criticised Australian leaders for "performative gestures".
" She directly addressed Albanese: "I ask our prime minister and our fellow parliamentarians how many international rights laws must Israel break for us to say enough? What is the magic number? How many mass graves need to be uncovered before we say enough? How many images of bloody limbs of murdered children must we see?" Payman called on her colleagues to "stand up for what is right" and said Australia should impose sanctions, engage in...
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