Australian senator suspended for wearing burqa in protest

Australian senator Pauline Hanson was suspended from parliament for wearing a burqa as part of her campaign for a national ban. The One Nation party leader walked into the chamber shrouded head-to-ankle to protest fellow senators' refusal to consider her bill that would ban the burqa and other full-face coverings in public places. Senators accused Hanson of performing a disrespectful stunt, suspending her for the rest of the day on Monday. On Tuesday, they passed a censure motion that carried one of the harshest penalties against a senator in recent decades she was barred from seven consecutive Senate sitting days. The suspension will continue when parliament resumes next February. Hanson later told reporters she would be judged by voters at the next election in 2028, not her Senate colleagues.

The Evolution of Australian senator suspended for wearing burqa in protest

An Australian senator who is campaigning for a national burqa ban was barred from parliament for the rest of the year on Tuesday for wearing the Muslim garment in the chamber.

Pauline Hanson, the 71-year-old leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation party, was accused of performing a disrespectful stunt on Monday when she walked into the Senate shrouded in a head-to-ankle garment to protest fellow senators' refusal to consider her bill that would ban the burqa and other full-face coverings in public places.

Senators suspended Hanson for the rest of the day on Monday. In the absence of an apology, they passed on Tuesday a censure motion that carried one of the harshest penalties against a senator in recent decades she was barred from seven consecutive Senate sitting days.

The Senate arises for the year on Thursday, and Hanson's suspension will continue when the parliament resumes next February.

Hanson later told reporters she would be judged by voters at the next election in 2028, not by her Senate colleagues.

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