Two States

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.