First Hijabi Western Australia Senator Fatima Payman's Speech

By: Fatima Payman    Nov 1, 2022 No Comments

Category: Australia, Featured, Highlights, Life & Society, Videos, Women Topics: Australia, Muslim Women Views: 1281
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Senator Fatima Payman is a senator for Western Australia. She is 27 years old New Senator, was an organiser for the United Workers Union in 2018 and was a program coordinator for Edmund Rice Education Australia. She was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and was naturalised as an Australian citizen in 2005. Payman is the first hijab-wearing Muslim woman in the Australian Parliament.

  Category: Australia, Featured, Highlights, Life & Society, Videos, Women
  Topics: Australia, Muslim Women
Views: 1281

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