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Two States

Labor senator Fatima Payman asks, 'Well, do we recognise a Palestinian State, or don't we?' Senator Penny Wong and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stand in front of a box labelled 'ALP, two state solution,' and Albanese says, 'you've heard of Schrodinger's cat?'

In June Labor Senator Fatima Payman voted against the party to support a Greens Senate motion calling for Palestinian recognition. As a result, she was excluded from the caucus and later resigned from the Labor Party. Cathy Wilcox employs the ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ thought experiment — in which two superimposed quantum states are likened to a cat in a box that is neither dead nor alive until we take a peek inside — to convey what she seems to regard as the absurdity of Labor’s position. Payman later launched the new Australia’s Voice party.

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