A Small Detail On Pauline Hanson's Burqa Explains Why She Wasn't Challenged Entering The Senate

One of Pauline Hanson's arguments for banning the burqa is that you don't know who's under the veil. Hanson wore a burqa into Question Time in the Australian Senate today, then removed the head covering in a dramatic flourish when she rose to ask attorney-general George Brandis if he would ban the Muslim covering in Australia. No, he said. Hanson was widely condemned by all sides of politics and Brandis, the government leader in the senate, called her stunt "appalling". The One Nation leader tried to create the impression she was Harry Potter under a politically correct invisibility cloak when she spoke to the media afterwards. “No security guards at any point in time asked to see my face,” she said. “One of the attendants on the floor of parliament, he just gasped.

 

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