Rebel Labor MP Fatima Payman has a $450,000 reason why she won’t be quitting politics when she quits the ALP today – she’s just bought a new investment property in Canberra.
Taking a leaf from the practice of dozens of MPs, including the Prime Minister when he was a Labor frontbencher, she’s also charging taxpayers $310 a night to sleep in her own investment property in Canberra in a bid to help pay off the mortgage.
Rebel Labor MP Fatima Payman has bought a new investment property in Canberra and is charging taxpayers $310 a night to sleep in her own property to help pay off the mortgage. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman
The WA Senator and newlywed is expected to quit the ALP today over her fight for Palestine, creating a major headache for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
But the biggest clue that she will remain on the crossbench as an independent MPcomes in the form of her newly acquired investment property with a mortgage with Macquarie Bank.
Like many MPs, she’s offsetting the cost of a Canberra investment property by claiming $310 in nightly travel allowance to sleep in her own investment properties.
New apartment provides clue to Senator Payman’s future
Despite the Prime Minister privately telling the rogue ALP recruit that she should hand back her seat to the Labor Party if she plans to quit, the 29-year old Senator’s new apartment suggests there’s no chance of that happening.
News.com.au has confirmed that Senator Payman paid $450,000 on June 20, 2023 to purchase a two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment in Canberra’s northern suburbs.
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