Fatima Payman, 27, made history this week after becoming the first hijab-wearing Senator in Australia’s parliament. 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. “Who would have thought that a young woman born in Afghanistan and the daughter of a refugee would be standing in this chamber today?” said Payman. “Knowing the sacrifices that my dad went through as a
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