Party founder
Fatima Payman was elected to the
Senate in
May 2022 on the
Australian Labor Party (ALP) ticket for
Western Australia. She sat with the party until resigning in July 2024 following her
crossing the floor on a Senate resolution supporting Australian recognition of
Palestinian statehood, and subsequent
caucus suspension. She subsequently sat as an independent senator until 9 October 2024, when she announced the formation of Australia's Voice. The choice of the party's name was criticised by multiple
Indigenous Australian leaders on the grounds the party had appropriated the name from the proposed
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, and had done so close to the anniversary (14 October) of the unsuccessful
2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum. Uluru Dialogue co-chair
Megan Davis criticised the name and timing as "extraordinarily insensitive",
Uphold and Recognise chair Sean Gordon criticised the name as a "further attempt by the pro-Palestinian movement to leverage off the back of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people", and former Labor Senator
Nova Peris stated the name "is breathtakingly disrespectful, and a complete misappropriation of yet another aspect of my people’s story and emblems". Payman also stated she was not concerned that the party name was similar to the defunct anti-Islam
Australian Voice Party, which was associated with her chief of staff,
Glenn Druery. The party was officially registered with the
Australian Electoral Commission on 17 December 2024. Australia's Voice ran candidates for the
Senate in each state (except for Tasmania) in the
2025 Australian federal election, none were successful in getting more than 1% of the vote. Its founder, Payman, was not up for election, as she is serving a term which expires in
2028. In August 2025, Payman signalled her intention to rename the party after herself, stating the current party name was a factor in the party's performance at the election. == Structure ==