The Australian Senate was suspended for more than one and a half hours Monday after a member strode into the chamber wearing a burqa as part of her protest against the Muslim garment.
Senator Pauline Hanson of the One Nation party, who is calling for burqas and face coverings to be banned across the country, was accused of “blatant racism” for her actions after being denied permission to introduce a bill that would ban the face-coverings in public.
This was the second time Senator Hanson had donned the burqa in Canberra’s parliament.
In 2017, amid a similar One Nation push to ban the head covering, she wore a similar if not identical item of…
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