Labor senator Fatima Payman has been advised by minor party "whisperer" Glenn Druery, who says he has also advised Muslim community groups on election strategy.
Mr Druery also said he had had "informal conversations with the Muslim community" about election strategies.It comes as a Western Sydney-based group called The Muslim Vote plans a "teal-style" political campaign to unseat Labor MPs by mobilising Muslim community anger over the government's stance on Gaza and on the question of Palestinian recognition.
The federal Labor caucus unanimously endorsed the PM's decision to suspend Senator Payman at a meeting in Canberra on Tuesday, and senior Labor MPs have privately expressed their frustration at her conduct.NSW Labor MP Anthony D'Adam, the co-convenor of Labor Friends of Palestine, told the ABC "the vast majority of the party membership think that the position she's taken is the right one on the right side of history, and want Labor to be on the right side of history.
"The top three electorates with the highest numbers of Australian Muslims in them are Blaxland, Watson and Calwell," he told the ABC. Mr Samaras pointed to the example of Fowler, where well-known local Dai Le won a previously safe Labor seat by capitalising on community anger about "parachuted" Labor candidate Kristina Keneally.
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