Fatima Payman

... because that is the only way you can add this all up.

Senator Payman.

Thank you, Madam President.

My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Defense, Senator Wong.

The Western Australian government's Westport project proposes a new container port at Kwinana, close to major defense infrastructure supporting AUKUS.

With these projects potentially competing for construction workers, materials, and infrastructure capacity, what is the Commonwealth doing to prevent delays and cost blowouts across both projects? Has the Commonwealth undertaken a security risk assessment of Westport's interaction with AUKUS facilities and operations? And if so, will the government release its findings?

Thank you, Senator Payman.

Minister Wong.

So in the 21st century, leftists generally opposed this principle existing in the party as it prevents individuals from taking conscience positions on, say, LGBT rights or Palestine.

So the most recent person to be expelled from the federal Labor Party is named Fatima Payman.

She is a woman in hijab, and she was expelled for voting on a series of ceremonial votes, it must be said, on Palestine, that this chamber condemns the genocide sort of stuff.

Resolutions, I think, are similar for us, would be the idea that it's a non-necessarily binding vote, but nevertheless, they booted from the party.

There's been, I guess, a form of alliance or some sort of agreement between some unlikely bedfellows.

Pauline Hanson and ex-Labor member or senator Fatima Payman unite in bizarre new alliance.

Pauline Hanson's...

Hansen has joined forces with former Labor senator with whom she has repeatedly clashed in a bizarre new alliance.

Now, if you scroll down and see this clip, you'll see Fatima Payman standing behind Pauline Hansen and also Di Lee, who's an independent in the lower house, and they're talking about the staff that Albanese is allocating to them.

So they joined forces to talk about this issue and they said, look, we've put our previous disagreements behind us and we're joining forces on this one issue.

Now, I mean, I don't have a problem with that.

Okay, well, one thing that was brought up about this image, and I'll bring it back up on the screen, is this was actually probably clever politics on Pauline Hanson's part.

I think it's touched a real nerve amongst many people who just have been waiting for some kind of concrete action and are just excited to see that an innovative idea has come forth and actually feeling proud about it too.

But, look, Lydia Thorpe and Fatima Payman... have been long-time advocates since the early development of this package.

But when it came into Parliament, the lead sponsors were Senator David Pocock in the Senate and Sophie Stomps in the House, along with Andrew Wilkie.

And it's also got the full support of the Greens, so Senator Maureen Faruqi and Senator David Shoebridge have been strong advocates.

She's had a very busy week.

In fact, you might have seen her in a press conference alongside Fatima Payman and Pauline Hanson.

I hear you going, what? Let's speak to Di Lee on this Sunday morning.

I hope you're well.

Good morning, Luke.

Thanks so much for your time.

What the hell were you doing at a press conference with Pauline Hanson and Fatima Payman? Boy.

Yes, look, it was an important issue and Senator Hanson and Senator Payman, you know, suggested that we should stand together on this one issue and putting aside any kind of...