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'''Fatima Payman''' is an Australian politician and member-elect of the ] at the ]. She was declared elected to the Senate for Western Australia on 20 June 2022, and will begin her term on 1 July. '''Fatima Payman''' is an Australian politician and member-elect of the ] at the ]. She was declared elected to the Senate for Western Australia on 20 June 2022, and will begin her term on 1 July.


Revision as of 11:39, 20 June 2022

Australian politician
Fatima Payman
Senator-elect for Western Australia
Assuming office
1 July 2022
Personal details
Born1995
Afghanistan
Political partyLabor

Fatima Payman is an Australian politician and member-elect of the Australian Senate at the 2022 Australian federal election. She was declared elected to the Senate for Western Australia on 20 June 2022, and will begin her term on 1 July.

Early life and family

Payman was born in Afghanistan around 1995, arriving in Australia as a refugee in 2003 aged 8 years old and settling in Perth.

Her father had already arrived in Australia via boat in 1999, fleeing the Taliban. After leaving immigration detention, her father worked as a security guard, kitchen hand and taxi driver, in order to earn enough money to sponsor his wife and four children to also migrate. Once in Australia, her mother started a business giving driving lessons.

Payman's grandfather was also a member of parliament in Afghanistan.

Citizenship and potential Section 44 issues

Payman was naturalised as an Australian citizen in 2005, although this did not automatically revoke her Afghan citizenship. As Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia requires all candidates to be a citizen of Australia only, she approached the Afghanistan embassy in Australia in October 2021 to renounce her Afghan citizenship. She was told she had followed the correct steps, but the embassy could not finalise it because it had no contact with the new Taliban government that seized control of the country in August.

The ALP received legal advice that Payman was nevertheless still eligible to be elected, as she had taken all reasonable steps to renounce her Afghan citizenship, noting that the Afghan Embassy in Australia did not even know whether the various departments and officers who would be tasked with processing her application in Kabul even exist anymore, following the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban.

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