Western Australian senator Fatima Payman has delivered a powerful first address to the Senate.
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The 27-year-old is the first person to wear a hijab in the Australian parliament. She spoke about her family’s journey from Afghanistan to Australia after the Taliban came to power and her experience of being ridiculed for wearing a hijab while she was at university.
Payman said she ‘gave herself the audacity’ to ‘challenge the system and to see how far I would go’.
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