Fatima Payman, Australia's first hijab-wearing senator, sobs as she tells powerful refugee story

Senator Fatima Payman told how her family fled to Australia when she was eight, and broke down in tears as she paid tribute to her father Abdul who died of cancer before he could see her elected.

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