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Australian lawmaker gets suspended for wearing burqa into the Senate

November 25, 2025 | | Print Article

A failed legislative effort found an Australian senator taking a different tactic to highlight the threats of face coverings and burqas in public, which landed her a seven day suspension.

The multi-pronged degradation of society through globalism has garnered considerable pushback on Marxist ideologies in recent years. Now, as recent elections and news stories have renewed focus on encroaching Islamism and its incompatibility with Western society, Queensland Sen. Pauline Hanson, leader of Australia’s One Nation Party, found herself temporarily removed after donning a burqa to prove her point about the need to ban the allegedly oppressive garments in public.

Despite earning daggers from peers in Parliament for her display, Hanson explained that her decision to wear a burqa had been prompted by blocked introduction of her bill to ban them, preventing even consideration of the legislation, “Today I wore a burqa into the Senate after One Nation’s bill to ban the burqa and face coverings in public was blocked from even being introduced. The usual hypocrites had an absolute freak out.”

“The fact is more than 20 countries around the world have banned the Burqa because they recognise it as a tool that oppresses women, poses a national security risk, encourages radical islam and threatens social cohesion [sic]. If these hypocrites don’t want me to wear a burqa, they can always support my ban,” she had gone on as a broader statement expressed in part, “Senators who are perfectly happy for identity-covering burqas to be freely and proudly worn in public literally freaked out today when One Nation leader Senator Hanson again wore the garment in Parliament, one of the most secure buildings in Australia.”

“They were outraged, but not for the right reasons as usual,” said Hanson, as more than 20 countries have full or partial bans, including France and Portugal and some Muslim countries. “This is not about religious expression. This is about community safety, national security, women’s rights, public civility and social cohesion. These are the reasons many countries have banned burqas, and they’re the same reasons for which I’ve tried to do the same.”

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In response to her latest burqa-wearing stint that followed a previous occasion donning the garment at Parliament in 2017, Hanson announced that she’d been slapped with a suspension for seven sitting days.

“The people will judge me when I face the next election. My future is in the people’s hands, not these gutless politicians,” she’d captioned a video addressing the press after peers had chided her from the floor, insisting her actions were racist and “Islamophobic.”

“This is a racist senator, displaying blatant racism,” Muslim Sen. Mehreen Faruqi had said on the floor while fellow Muslim Sen. Fatima Payman had insisted Hanson’s actions were a “shame” and “disgraceful.”

“These buggers in here have no idea about that whatsoever,” Hanson argued about looking to the future as she presented the case that multiracialism and multiculturalism are not interchangeable and “… we must be Australians all treated equally under one law.”

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She also specifically raised the complications presented from digital IDs and the potential that some Australians would be treated differently than others when it came to being identified.

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