Silvia Orriols from Australia appears in the Senate wearing a burka and a colourful dress.
Pauline Hanson put on a burqa because she was prevented from tabling a bill to ban it. She says that if they don't want her to wear it, they should ban it.
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On 24 November 2025, Australian Senator Pauline Hanson caused chaos in the Australian Senate when She entered wearing a black burqa.. He put it on minutes after the chamber prevented him from introducing a bill that sought to ban full-face coverings in the country. Hanson He used his clothing as a gesture of protest. and repeatedly defied the authority of the Senate presidency, which demanded that he withdraw and change his clothes.
71-year-old Pauline Hanson has been fighting the oppression of women in Australia for decades and this is the second time she has taken this action. The Daily Mail She explains that the debate flared up and she was eventually expelled from the session.
Several senators — especially the Muslim ones — They reacted with indignation and labelled it “racist” and “Islamophobic”.”.
The rest of the senators were outraged and called him a racist.
Pauline Hanson's entry Wearing a burqa with a floral dress underneath provoked an immediate and furious reaction from several senators.. The Muslim women MPs made their rejection of the gesture clear. They interpreted the gesture as a direct provocation and a public humiliation. The Green senator Mehreen Faruqi took the floor under parliamentary privilege and condemned the action without mincing words: «This is a racist senator who displays blatant racism and Islamophobia, Madam President, and someone should reprimand her for it.«Faruqi said firmly. His words, direct and forceful, immediately tensed the atmosphere in the chamber and sparked a debate charged with emotion and indignation.".
Faruqi's reaction was quickly echoed by other members of the Senate. Independent Fatima Payman, who wears a hijab, expressed her frustration with unusual harshness in the Senate. She asserted that Hanson was “disrespecting a faith, Muslims and Australian Muslims”Payman warned that that scene was “absolutely unconstitutional” and that it needed to be resolved before the session could continue.
The criticism was joined by Foreign Minister Penny Wong, who reminded that The senators represent people of all religions and from all backgrounds., and that the bare minimum required in a democratic Parliament is to act with decency and institutional respect. The interventions of Faruqi, Payman and Wong made it clear that Hanson's gesture had provoked an open confrontation.
Pauline Hanson to be expelled until she wears «appropriate clothing»
After a heated debate and a chamber completely overwhelmed by tension, Australian senators voted to expel Pauline Hanson from the chamber and not allow her to return until she presented herself in “appropriate clothing.”. The chair ordered him to leave the chamber immediately, and the session was suspended a few minutes later, marking one of the most chaotic episodes of the legislature.
Once forced to leave, the senator did not lower her tone. Outside the premises, the criticism continued. The Greens leader, Larissa Waters, described her behaviour as ’abominable“ and stressed that the manoeuvre ”does not improve anyone's life“ and only serves to make racially marginalised people feel less safe in the country.
«If they don't want me to wear it, they should ban the burqa.»
Once expelled from the chamber and defying the Senate's decision, Pauline Hanson turned her departure from Parliament into a new platform. On social media, the leader of One Nation… She denounced that the senators had blocked her law to ban the burqa and other full-face coverings.. She warned that she would continue to wear the veil until Australia banned it by law.«Despite being banned in 24 countries around the world, including Islamic ones, the hypocrites in our Parliament have rejected my bill.«, he stated.
He denounced on social media that the Senate had prevented him from defending his proposal and labelled the MPs who rejected his bill as “hypocrites”. He stated that The burqa is an “oppressive, radical and non-religious” garment that jeopardises the country's security and fosters the mistreatment of women. and proclaimed:«If they don't want me to wear it, they should ban the burqa..With this statement, Hanson not only vindicated the gesture, but also He announced that he would persist in his campaign to the limit of parliamentary rules..
This episode also reopens the precedent of 2017, When Hanson had already gained entry to the Senate with a burqa and was harshly reprimanded by the then Attorney General George Brandis. On that occasion he was told that,«Ridiculising someone's religious attire is atrocious. We are a tolerant society and must respect people's faith.«
Who is Pauline Hudson?
Pauline Hanson is 71 years old and entered politics in 2016 as a senator for Queensland. She is the founder and current leader of the One Nation party that He presents himself as a defender of “ordinary Australians”.”, Opposed to the political elite and mass immigration. The One Nation party has experienced remarkable growth in recent years. According to various polls, its share of the vote could reach 13 per cent nationally in some 2025 surveys, compared with approximately 6–7 per cent in previous election results.
Its representation in the Senate has recently doubled to four seats, giving it greater political clout in the upper chamber. In terms of its local presence, One Nation is expanding at grassroots level by establishing new electoral branches in regions hitherto poorly covered and is working to challenge the traditional strongholds of the major parties.
One Nation has been surrounded by controversies almost since its inception. One of the most recurring is his anti-immigration discourse and, in particular, his explicit opposition to Muslim immigration. Pauline Hanson already caused a strong backlash that year when she claimed that Australia It was at risk of being “flooded” by Asians, and years later it directed the same message against Muslim communities.. This has placed the party at the centre of multiple Allegations of racism, Islamophobia and fomenting social division, both by human rights organisations and by a large part of the Australian political spectrum. The party has defended measures such as ban the burqa, severely limit immigration and restrict multicultural programmes that they consider “destructive to Australian identity”.
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