Faith-based politics will be bad for social cohesion and Islam: PM
Phillip CooreyPolitical editor
The introduction of sectarian politics to Australia in the wake of Fatima Payman’s defection from the Labor Party would risk further harm to social cohesion and be bad for the Islamic community, Anthony Albanese has warned.
The prime minister also rounded on Senator Payman by rubbishing her claims that her defection from Labor was spontaneous rather than orchestrated, and implying she should resign altogether and give back her Senate seat to the party that put her in parliament.
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