WA senator Fatima Payman has quit the Labor Party and will sit as an independent. Senator Payman was indefinitely suspended from Labor's Caucus on Sunday, after she broke ranks, backing a Greens motion on recognising Palestinian statehood. Since then, she's claimed she's been exiled from the party and intimidated by colleagues to resign. She's said today she's "deeply torn" but that she was left with no other choice.