Australian Senator Pauline Hanson was banned from parliament for seven days after she wore a full-body burqa on the Senate floor to protest face coverings—a stunt she defended as a move for “equality for all Australians,” but which other senators condemned as “racist and unsafe.”
NEW: Australian senator Pauline Hanson, who was shut down when she requested to introduce a bill to ban burqas, banned from parliament after wearing a full-body burqa.
Senate leaders suspended the session after Hanson refused to remove the burqa.
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Australian senator Pauline Hanson, who was shut down when she requested to introduce a bill to ban burqas, banned from parliament after wearing a full-body burqa.
Senate leaders suspended the session after Hanson refused to remove the burqa.
“At the end of the day, this is Australia. It is not the Australian cultural way of life,” Hanson said in response to the incident.
“I just want equality for all Australians, and I don’t want to see the suppression or oppression of women in this country.”
Hanson was banned from parliament for 7 days for the incident by senators who claimed the stunt was “racist and unsafe.”
The stunt came shortly after Hanson was denied permission to introduce a bill seeking to ban burqas and other face coverings in public.