<p style="font-weight: 400;">In a scene that laid bare the extraordinary double standards governing Australia’s political class, Senator Pauline Hanson of the One Nation Party walked into the chamber wearing a burqa after Parliament refused even to allow her bill banning full-face coverings to be introduced.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Within seconds, the Left erupted. Senators shouted for her removal, called her “racist,” and shut the Senate down. Senate leader Penny Wong called for a vote on removing Hanson from the chamber as senators continued to shout, “Get her out.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“I rise to ask that you reflect the ruling of Senator Parry, when in the President’s chair, in relation to a similar stunt by this senator in this place, and I will remind those who may not have been here of what the then leader of the government, Senator Brandis, said at the time,’’ Wong said. “He says to Senator Hanson, ‘Senator I’m not going to pretend to ignore the stunt you have tried to pull today by arriving in the chamber dressed in a burqa, when we all know you are not an adherent of the Islamic faith.&#8217;”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“As soon as I started to introduce the bill, I was shut down,” Hanson responded. “And for Penny Wong to get up and say this is a place where we may have differences in policies and that type of thing. Well, that’s an absolute joke, because they won’t accept my policies.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“I respect people’s religions, okay, and I adhere to Section 116 of the Australian Constitution about religious observance,” she continued. “I’ve had no problem with that, but the burqa is not a religious requirement, and that’s been called out by Islamic clerics. These people don’t assimilate, and it’s controlling women. Here they constantly talk about, in the Greens and everyone else, women’s rights. We’re fighting for women’s rights, equal pay, equal you know, domestic violence, we’re clearly calling that women’s rights. If you ban the burqa, some of these men cannot force their women to wear the burqa.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Hanson wrote on X after the incident in the Senate: “Today I wore a burqa into the Senate after One Nation&#8217;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. If these hypocrites don&#8217;t want me to wear a burqa, they can always support my ban. Listen to my right of reply to what happened today, because I was blocked from saying anything in Parliament.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today I wore a burqa into the Senate after One Nation&#39;s bill to ban the burqa and face coverings in public was blocked from even being introduced.  </p>
<p>The usual hypocrites had an absolute freak out.  </p>
<p>The fact is more than 20 countries around the world have banned the Burqa… <a href="https://t.co/8ZZ0Sin1hG">pic.twitter.com/8ZZ0Sin1hG</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 (@PaulineHansonOz) <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulineHansonOz/status/1992886488300966251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“If this isn’t peak irony, I don’t know what is,” commentator Rukshan Fernando pointed out. “This is Australia, if the burqa is not banned, then anyone should be able to wear one and do with it what they like. There would be zero objections right now to a Muslim politician wearing a burqa in Parliament House. All sorts of props have been used in Parliament, including, most recently, the keffiyeh worn by people who are clearly not of that culture or background. We are constantly told that wearing a burqa is a freely made choice and that it is just a garment, so what exactly is the problem with Pauline Hanson wearing one? How can one group of people have exclusive rights over a style of garment in Australia? If the burqa is such a controversial garment, and these blatant double standards mean people can’t wear one for whatever reason they choose, then how is Pauline Hanson attempting to ban its use in public such a big deal?”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today, Senator Pauline Hanson was banned from wearing a burqa in the Senate while attempting to introduce a bill to ban the burqa in Australia. If this isn’t peak irony, I don’t know what is.</p>
<p>This is Australia, if the burqa is not banned, then anyone should be able to wear one… <a href="https://t.co/ixUSUpiB94">https://t.co/ixUSUpiB94</a> <a href="https://t.co/7AAzdEDp1S">pic.twitter.com/7AAzdEDp1S</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Rukshan Fernando (@therealrukshan) <a href="https://twitter.com/therealrukshan/status/1992850926919393388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Hanson’s stance is part of her party’s broader, unapologetic defense of Western values. One Nation has been one of the strongest voices in Australia firmly supporting Israel after the October 7 Hamas atrocities, calling out the Albanese government for backing a United Nations push they say effectively legitimizes a terrorist-controlled Palestinian authority. One Nation argues that Labor and the Greens speak out of both sides of their mouths—condemning Hamas when convenient while advancing policies that embolden anti-Israel sentiment at home.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="2712" data-end="2965" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">Against that backdrop, Hanson’s protest was no “stunt.” It was a demonstration meant to force a conversation Australia’s elites would rather avoid.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In that sense, it succeeded.</p>

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