Indie senator has a go at Hanson

‘Vindictive, mean, nasty’: Fatima Payman attacks Pauline Hanson in Senate furore

Independent senator Fatima Payman has launched a furious attack on fellow senator Pauline Hanson by accusing the One Nation leader of racism, halting Senate business for the debate and bringing Labor and the Coalition together to try to stop the crossbench dispute.

Hanson sought to table documents in the Senate on Wednesday morning, questioning Payman’s eligibility to be an MP when the West Australian independent and the Greens moved to stop her. An acrimonious debate ignited and forced a vote in which Labor and the Coalition sided with Hanson.

“You’re not just vindictive, mean, nasty. You bring disgrace to the human race,” Payman told Hanson in the Senate. “I kept on giving you the benefit of the doubt, Senator Hanson, despite your repetitive attempts to be racist to anyone who does not look like you.”

Victorian independent senator Lidia Thorpe backed Payman and called Hanson a “racist” as she appeared to throw papers at the One Nation leader in an extraordinary confrontation between crossbench senators.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/vindictive-mean-nasty-fatima-payman-attacks-pauline-hanson-in-senate-furore-20241127-p5ktut.html

Bring it on Fatima.