Aussie Senator Sparks Outrage by Wearing Burqa to Protest Ban Rejection

The Australian Left completely unraveled this week when Senator Pauline Hanson walked into Parliament wearing a burqa not as a stunt, but as a protest against the government’s refusal to even allow debate on her bill to ban full-face coverings in public spaces.

Within seconds, chaos erupted. Screams of “Get her out!” rang across the chamber. Senators branded her “racist” and demanded she be removed. Senate leader Penny Wong called for a formal vote to expel Hanson from the room, citing a previous burqa-wearing protest as precedent.

Why the hysteria? Because Hanson dared to expose the cowardice and hypocrisy of Australia’s political class.

“As soon as I started to introduce the bill, I was shut down,” Hanson said. “They won’t accept my policies.”

Let’s get to the heart of the issue. Hanson’s bill didn’t target religion. It sought to ban full-face coverings like the burqa for national security, women’s rights, and social cohesion just as more than 20 countries around the world have already done, including France, Denmark, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

Her argument is simple and grounded in reason:

• The burqa is not a religious requirement. Even many Islamic clerics admit this

• Full-face coverings undermine social trust and public safety by concealing identity

• They are tools of oppression, often forced on women by controlling men

• Feminists on the Left claim to fight for women’s rights yet defend the burqa at all costs

Hanson stated clearly: “We’re fighting for women’s rights… if you ban the burqa, some of these men cannot force their women to wear it.”

But instead of debating her bill, the Left chose to shut it down without a hearing then melt down when she held up a mirror to their hypocrisy.

Commentator Rukshan Fernando captured the absurdity perfectly:

“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 if a Muslim politician wore one. So why is Pauline Hanson wearing it suddenly offensive?”

Indeed, the Left doesn’t want equality they want ideological dominance. Cultural appropriation is celebrated when it suits their narrative (keffiyehs in Parliament, anyone?), but when a conservative woman puts on a burqa to challenge their orthodoxy, they lose their minds.

Let’s be clear: this was no stunt. It was a pointed demonstration designed to spark a national conversation that Australia’s political elites are too cowardly to have. And in that, it absolutely succeeded.

Hanson and her One Nation party have also been among the few voices in Australia to stand unapologetically with Israel after the barbaric Hamas attacks on October 7. While Labor and the Greens try to walk both sides of the fence condemning terrorism in public, while enabling anti-Israel sentiment at the U.N. One Nation has called out the cowardice head-on.

At a time when Western values are under siege, Hanson is forcing uncomfortable truths into the spotlight and the political class can’t handle it.

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