Fatima Payman leaves Senate chamber after 'brutal' questioning and heckling from Coalition - video
The opposition has focused on newly independent senator Fatima Payman in her first Senate session after leaving the Labor party. Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie, in her second question to Penny Wong about Anthony Albanese’s role in 'disciplining' Payman, asked how the prime minister could be taken seriously when he has been so 'comprehensively outplayed' by Payman. While the exchange between McKenzie and Wong took place, Payman watched quietly and impassively from a crossbench seat at the back of the chamber. A few short minutes later she left the Senate alone
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