An Australian senator campaigning for a national burqa ban was suspended Tuesday from parliament for the rest of the year after wearing the garment in the chamber.

Pauline Hanson, the 71-year-old leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrations One Nation minor party, was accused of performing a disrespectful stunt on Monday after she walked into the Senate wearing a burqa to protest fellow senators’ refusal to consider her bill that would ban the burqa and other full-face coverings in public places.

Senators suspended Hanson, who is not Muslim, for the rest of the day after she reportedly refused to leave the room or remove the burqa. Hanson’s bill to ban the burqa and other full-face coverings in public places was not voted on.

In the absence of an apology, the Senate passed a censure m

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