Former ALP senator Fatima Payman launches new political party Australia’s Voice after quitting Labor over views on Gaza [Video]

Former Labor senator Fatima Payman has revealed her new political party will be called Australia’s Voice.

Payman told the media during a press conference she will run Senate candidates in all states and some in the lower house.

She said Australia’s Voice is a centrist party and will stand for “all Australians” to reflect the needs of “the disenfranchised and the unheard”.

“[So many have felt] a growing frustration, a feeling of being left behind. Of shouting into the void. Only for their concerns to fall on deaf ears,” Payman said. 

“So many of you have told me with emotions in your hearts, we need something different. We need a voice. It is this cry for change that has brought us here today. 

“Because we can no longer sit by while our voices are drowned out by the same old politics.”

She …