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Pretty clear' Fatima Payman has been planning to join crossbench for a long period', minister says
The finance minister and manager of the government in the Senate, Katy Gallagher, is speaking with ABC RN after Fatima Payman's resignation yesterday.
It's difficult to go into, you know, when the decision was made - only Senator Payman knows that - but we do know, now that it's been done, it's a matter of fact that there had been obviously discussions about her role as an independent senator and for some time.
I think the way these decisions have been made by Senator Payman make it pretty clear that she has been thinking about this for a long period of time, and it was executed this week ...
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