greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 25
th, 2025 at 11:03am:
Frank wrote on Nov 25
th, 2025 at 10:25am:
If Fatty Payman can wear a foreign clown garb in parliament, why can't anyone? Lividia or Ken Wyatt could wear animal furs in parliament to great applause. Maori buffoons can have face tattoos in parliament and perform their ridiculous haka.
Suspending Hanson means that Parliament effectively banned the burqa IN parliament but refuses to consider banning it anywhere else. Hanson is right to call them total hypocrites.
All she wanted to table a bill for debate so the burqa can be debated in parliament. They refused to debate it and simpy banned the wearing of it IN parliament.
It's the
prop that was banned from parliament, and in this case it just so happened to be a burqa.
Hanson isn't a Muslim and she doesn't wear a burqa in everyday life.
Thus, her actions were just a
stunt and the burqa was used as a
prop - that's not allowed in parliament.
The same thing would happen if she wore traditional Aboriginal animal furs, a kippah, or a turban.
1. So the burqa is a racist, misogynist, disrespectful prop and it is NOT the woman's choice to wear it if she wants to.
2. Hanson also managed to send a message directly to the 15 per cent of voters opinion polls show support her Reform-like One Nation party, more than double the vote share it achieved in Australia’s general election last May. The centre-right Liberal and National coalition parties are in electoral freefall, not least because they are seen as weak and divided on mass immigration, and multiculturalism versus assimilation. Hanson sees the burka ban as an opportunity to appeal to these disenchanted supporters.
What Hanson didn’t get was a fair hearing as an elected senator which, like it or not, she is. She has a right to propose legislation and to seek its parliamentary debate. Hanson was denied the chance to speak by the president of the Senate, shouted down by other senators, and generally ridiculed by the Australian media.

The burqa is not any less ridiculous and offensive outside parliament than in parliament.