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The Latest Breaking News from Fatima Payman

Yes, Labor should ditch its caucus rules — if it wants to avoid becoming a shrinking cult

Arguing for the affirmative in this week’s Friday Fight: columnist Rachel Withers.

Crikey

Anthony Albanese appeals to western Sydney amid Muslim voting campaigns on Gaza war

The seats of Blaxland and Watson have higher percentages of Muslim voters than Labor’s 2022 winning margin

The Guardian - AU

ALP condemns Gaza school bombing amid community outrage

Federal cabinet minister Jason Clare has condemned the bombing of schools in Gaza, as Australian Muslims continue to warn they feel disenfranchised by Labor.

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Fatima Payman advises Muslims: ‘Don’t establish a political party’

Senator Fatima Payman, who resigned from Labor last week to sit as a crossbench independent, says she would advise Muslims not to form their own political party.

The Conversation

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Fatima Payman on the challenges and opportunities of being a crossbencher

Western Australian Senator Fatima Payman quit Labor after defying the party’s “solidarity” rule. Her action, spurred by the Gaza issue, has intensified Labor fears about the possible impact of the Muslim vote in some of its safe seats at the election.

The Conversation

Politicians panicking about ‘faith-based’ forces need to look at Australia’s history

Is our magically secular law really under religious threat for the first time? Hardly.

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Crikey readers on Labor and the division caused by the Payman saga

Some view the responses to Fatima Payman quitting Labor as ‘extremely poor and one-sided’. Others ask, ‘What is the issue here?’

Crikey

At the heart of the Payman pile-on lies a fundamental failure of imagination

Did Labor force Fatima Payman out as part of some broader political strategy? Or was it just plain old incomprehension and incompetence?

Crikey

NATO underway amid Biden questions

The NATO summit opens in Washington as Joe Biden’s future is discussed by Democrats, and Australia’s wage growth is some of the worst in the OECD.

Crikey

Think identity politics is a problem for Labor? Wait ’til you see the Republicans

Identity politics isn’t confined to the left. In fact it’s everywhere, driven by the dominance of market economics.

Crikey

No ADF money for missile defence, just subs

Former defence chiefs say we need integrated air and missile defences to protect bases in the north of Australia, and Russia has bombed a Kyiv children’s hospital in a devastating attack.

Crikey

Who are the grassroots Muslim groups with an eye on Labor seats?

Pro-Palestine campaigners say they will back candidates at the next federal election but they are not the only religious groups hoping to influence voters

The Guardian - AU

‘Pathetic’: Muslim journalists slam ‘rabid’, ‘disgusting’ coverage of Fatima Payman

‘Every time I write or read about Senator Payman, I am inundated with the most Islamophobic shit I have ever seen,’ one journalist told Crikey.

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Faith-based politics is nothing new in Australia – so what’s Albanese really worried about?

Senator Fatima Payman’s defection over Labor Party policy on statehood for the Palestinians has generated wider discussion about the written and unwritten rules of Australian politics. One of those involves the vexed question of the role of religious faith.

Crikey

Payman triggers a racist upwelling from deep in the political media psyche

Why has Fatima Payman elicited such a ferocious reaction from our mainly white media and political class? The reason points to the lie behind ‘social cohesion’.

Crikey

A timeline of leaks by ‘senior Labor figures who asked not to be named’

With the help of various journalists, Labor figures have had a lot to say about now-independent Senator Fatima Payman. We just don’t know who.

AAP

'Not Labor they elected' as people reel from Gaza war

Fatima Payman has defended keeping her Senate seat after being elected on a Labor ticket, saying her community is upset at a lack of action on the war in Gaza.

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The Guardian - AU

Police seek Sydney woman’s partner over alleged stabbing death – as it happened

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French left snatch victory

Marine Le Pen is on track to lose the second round of French parliamentary elections, and the Coalition leads Labor in NSW.

The Conversation

All ‘commit’ and no ‘disagree’: the real reason why Labor’s solidarity pledge is not working

The Australian Labor Party’s solidarity pledge is being widely sledged in the wake of Western Australian Senator Fatima Payman’s resignation from caucus.

The Guardian - AU

Mehreen Faruqi hits back at claims Fatima Payman’s resignation from Labor was orchestrated

Deputy Greens leader says Muslim women are often stereotyped in Australia as unable to make solo decisions

AAP

Greens deputy says Muslim voters 'long ignored'

The deputy leader of the Greens says the major parties have failed to address the needs of migrant communities and their voices are not being heard.

The Guardian - US

It’s no surprise a Newsweek writer panned Taylor Swift for being single and childless

The broader context of what the magazine has become starts with political activist Josh Hammer running its opinion pages

The Guardian - AU

The week in parliament: conference chatter over Dutton’s successor and whispers of a December election

Angus Taylor is shaping up the most likely successor to Dutton. Plus: success of UK pro-Palestine candidates ‘something to reflect on’ for Labor

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