Ramadan night markets bring thousands of visitors to Lakemba – a suburb where Pauline Hanson claims people ‘feel unwelcome’

Sixty food vendors will be at the Lakemba Ramadan night markets in Sydney, which run from 19 February to 16 March. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

The steps at Lakemba mosque on Thursday night hum with a contented quietness, and the smell of sweet bread baking.

Two men sitting get up to greet me. Outside, three 14-year-old boys stop to chat. They’ve just finished tutoring and are heading to the mosque for tarawih – evening prayer – before the Lakemba Nights markets, one says.