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Pauline Hanson was suspended after wearing a burqa in the Senate to protest a denied bill banning full-face coverings, sparking accusations of racism and Islamophobia.
- On Monday, Pauline Hanson, One Nation leader and senator for Queensland, entered the Senate chamber in Canberra wearing a burqa after being blocked from tabling a bill to ban full-face coverings as a political prop.
- Hanson has long campaigned against full-face coverings since 2002 and previously wore a burqa in the Senate during the 2017 incident while pressing for a national ban.
- Refusing to remove the garment, Pauline Hanson prompted a suspension of Senate proceedings when she stayed in the chamber, while Senate leaders moved formal motions to address her conduct.
- Advocates warned the stunt would stigmatise and threaten burqa-wearing women, with Muslim Mehreen Faruqi and Fatima Payman condemning it as racist, while Aftab Malik cited fewer than 250 women affected.
- The episode sits within a global conversation about bans on face coverings as the One Nation party holds four Senate seats after May's general election and Hanson cited countries that have banned or restricted burqas.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's Senate on Tuesday suspended far-right Senator Pauline Hanson for seven sitting days after she wore a burqa to Parliament as a political prop in her campaign to ban the Muslim garment in public, triggering condemnation from lawmakers. Read full story
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Australian far-right senator wears burqa to parliament, sparking outrage
Australian far-right Senator Pauline Hanson wore a burqa to Parliament on Monday as a political prop in her push to ban the Muslim garment in public, sparking accusations of racism from Muslim senators over the stunt. Hanson wore the burqa shortly after she was denied permission to introduce a bill…
Far-right Senator Pauline Hanson sparked the anger of the Australian Parliament by running in burqa to protest the blocking of her bill to ban clothing covering the face. ...
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