Senate
Fatima Payman
Fatima Payman is an Australia's Voice senator for Western Australia. First elected 1 July 2022.
- 2024 Left Labor caucus
- 2024 Joined Australia's Voice
- Australian Labor Party
- Independent
- Australia's Voice
Before this: won Senate seat (2022).
What do they focus on?
Not enough tracked speeches or amendments to say yet.
Bars show tracked speeches and amendments by policy area.
How do they vote?
Share of recorded votes on the same side as each party's majority.
811 tracked votes across their party affiliations.
How do they compare?
- Years in parliament i Total time served across every stint in either chamber, up to the end of the tracked record. 4 yrs 0.2 avg 8.5 yrs 33.3
- Votes against their party i Recorded votes cast against their own party's majority side. The average is across party members only. 0 avg 0.6 26
- Bills introduced i Bills they introduced to Parliament, counted across the tracked record. 4 avg 2.8 46
- Amendments sponsored i Amendments to bills they put forward during debate, counted across the tracked record. 17 avg 7.9 226
Her progressive positions are more left-wing than her voting record, which is pulled toward Labor by economic, climate and workplace votes while her protest votes often follow populist allies. Topic strips exclude accountability and process votes; read small counts loosely.
What have they done lately?
In early 2026, Payman opposed 2026 migration measures in their current form, arguing that ministerial powers and reduced safeguards could harm people fleeing conflict; she nevertheless voted Aye on several specific humanitarian, scrutiny and safeguard proposals, all defeated. She also opposed criminal and migration hate laws in their current form and voted Aye on several scrutiny and rights safeguards, while voting No on proposals to criminalise flag burning and create a violence-disavowal process. These were positions on separate questions, not necessarily whole-bill endorsements.
On 1 April 2026, she moved two language-services motions seeking a national language-access framework and detailed workforce rules; both were defeated. In February 2026, she supported the price-gouging bill, saying stronger action was needed on essentials beyond supermarkets.
When do they vote against their party?
Fatima recorded no votes against their party of the day across 811 recorded votes.
What do they say in debate?
25 tracked speeches across 24 bills.
- 18 backing a bill
- 3 with reservations
- 4 against
- 0 no clear position
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About these numbers
Based on 766 tracked bills from the 47th and 48th Parliaments, current to 6 July 2026. This is a sample of parliamentary activity, not the complete record.
Career markers come from dated public records. Voting figures use division lists only. For party members, the left-to-right marker begins at the party position. It moves only when the member votes against that party and on the same side as a neighbouring party; other cross-party combinations do not affect it. Independents and minor-party members are placed by their votes in divisions where the Greens and the Coalition took opposite sides. If this position differs from a member’s broader public politics, a note appears below the strip.