Fatima Payman's husband quits the Labor Party after controversy over her support for Palestine

Fatima Payman's husband has quit his job as a high-level Labor staffer after his wife ditched the party that helped get her elected to the Senate to sit as an independent.

Jacob Stokes quit as senior policy adviser to WA Labor Emergency Services Minister Stephen Dawson on Monday following Senator Payman's dramatic falling out with her party over the situation in Palestine.

Mr Stokes said it had not been an easy decision to quit the job he had been doing for the past year but it was 'right one'.

According to Senator Payman, Mr Stokes received a hug from Mr Dawson on his last day and was thanked for his service.

Mr Stokes told the West Australian the decision to quit came 'after deep personal reflections and discussions with my wife'.

'These past few weeks have been incredibly challenging, and as a husband, my priority is, and always will be, my wife,' he said.

'Fatima is facing an uncertain and isolating time, and I want to be able to give her my unwavering support, something I could not provide while working for the State Government.'

Following her crossing the floor to support a Greens motion to recognise a Palestinian state Senator Payman was banned from participating in the parliamentary caucus of all Labor MPs a bit over two weeks ago,

Senator Payman subsequently accused some of her Labor colleagues of giving her the 'cold shoulder' and decided to leave the party.

During this period Mr Stokes took a week's annual leave to fly to Canberra and be at his wife's side.

Senator Payman said as late as Saturday her husband remained a member of the ALP and it was 'his prerogative if he remains in the party, even as she moves to the Senate crossbench to sit an independent.

She has now said is 'so proud' of her husband who had given up his dream job that he had long strived for.

'Jacob was very well respected within his ranks. Everyone loved him for the work he did,' she said. 

She said the courage and loyalty shown by Mr Stokes is something 'every wife can only dream of'.

Senator Payman insisted her husband had made the decision to quit 'of his own accord' and had not been pressured by anyone in WA Labor to quit the job.

However, she said it was untenable for him to keep the job and stand by her side without potentially embarrassing the the minister or others in the WA government.

Senator Payman said she had no regrets about quitting the ALP even thought the past month had been a 'roller coaster' and she knew there were 'challenging' times ahead.

Senator Fatima Payman's dramatic exit from the Labor Party has raised questions about whether Labor can continue relying on votes from Muslim communities.

The first-term West Australian senator resigned from the party over her stance on Palestine and has also met with representatives from The Muslim Vote, a grassroots organisation that is set to run candidates in some Western Sydney Labor strongholds.

But Prime Minister Anthony Albanese maintains that the nation's political parties should maintain social unity.

'I don't think, and don't want, Australia to go down the road of faith-based political parties because what that will do is undermine social cohesion,' he told reporters on Friday.

'My party has ... people who are Catholic, people who are Uniting Church, people who are Muslim, people who are Jewish - that is the way that we've conducted politics in Australia, that's the way you bring cohesion.'

Senator Payman's departure also signalled that Mr Albanese's next term could be a minority government, which Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said would be a 'disaster' as it would include 'Greens, the Green-teals ... and Muslim candidates from Western Sydney'.

Cricket legend Usman Khawaja described Mr Dutton's comments 'an absolute disgrace' and that he was 'fuelling Islamophobia'.