{"id":16420,"date":"2022-07-29T05:08:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T05:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=16420"},"modified":"2022-07-29T05:08:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T05:08:30","slug":"fatima-payman-becomes-australias-first-hijabi-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=16420&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Fatima Payman becomes Australia\u2019s first hijabi senator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Payman thanks her father for his sacrifices who arrived in Australia as Afghan refugee and died in 2018.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>She was eight years old when she arrived in Australia in 2003.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Payman addresses concerns about her hijab, emphasising that wearing it was her choice.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-cnvs-separator-id-1659071216536\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Fatima Payman, 27, made history this week after becoming the first hijab-wearing Senator in Australia\u2019s parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Payman broke down a few minutes into her first speech in Parliament when thanking her father for his sacrifices who arrived in Australia as an Afghan refugee and died in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWho would have thought that a young woman born in Afghanistan and the daughter of a refugee would be standing in this chamber today?\u201d said Payman.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKnowing the sacrifices that my dad went through as a taxi driver and security guard to ensure he saved up enough money to make ends meet, to support his family, and to ensure my siblings and I had the future he wasn\u2019t able to secure for himself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Payman was eight years old when she arrived in Australia in 2003 with her mother and three younger siblings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She attended Australian Islamic College in Perth and went to university to become a doctor, but got involved in politics instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Payman\u2019s father died of leukaemia in 2018 at the age of 47 and unfortunately never lived to see her become a senator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also addressed concerns about her hijab, emphasising that wearing it was her choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor those who choose to advise me on what I should wear, or judge my competency based on my external experience, know that the hijab is my choice,\u201d Payman said. \u201cI am young, I am progressive, and my family were born overseas \u2013 I am a representative of modern Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News Payman thanks her father for his sacrifices who arrived in Australia as Afghan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,71,34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-important-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-world","10":"cs-entry","11":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16425,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions\/16425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}