Australian Senator Pauline Hanson has been barred from Parliament for seven sitting days after entering the Senate wearing a burqa in protest against colleagues who refused to consider her bill to ban the garment nationwide.
The One Nation leader was suspended on Monday and formally censured on Tuesday after declining to apologise for what lawmakers described as a disrespectful stunt.
Government Senate leader Penny Wong said Hanson’s act mocked a faith practiced by nearly one million Australians and risked fuelling social division.
Hanson, who previously sparked outrage with a similar protest in 2017, argued she was highlighting hypocrisy and said voters would judge her at the 2028 election.
