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Senate Proceedings – Senator Fatima Payman’s First Speech

Senator Fatima Payman is a senator for Western Australia. She was an organiser for the United Workers Union in 2018 and was a program coordinator for Edmund Rice Education Australia. She was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and was naturalised as an Australian citizen in 2005. Payman is the first hijab-wearing Muslim woman in the Australian Parliament. The transcript of this …

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