Senator Fatima Payman defied party lines and broke with decades of party tradition to vote with the Greens on a motion to "recognise the State of Palestine".
By voting against her party, she 'crossed the floor'.
Between February 1950 and April 2019, at least 296 parliamentarians have done this - but there's a reason it's a rare move in the Labor Party.
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