One Nation leader Pauline Hanson appeared in the Australian senate today wearing the full black covering of a burqa.

She wore it for several minutes until leaping to her feet when the Senate President gave her the call to ask a question asking to ban the burqa in Australia – a long-running call from the controversial Queensland senator, who claimed that the country was going to be over-run with Muslims when she returned to parliament last year.

She subsequently issued the following media release on Facebook:

Senator Pauline Hanson has attended question time dressed modestly in a full burqa and will later be delivering a speech in Parliament calling for the Government to ban full face coverings in public.

Senator Hanson said she made the decision to attend question time in a full face covering because she believed the need to ban full face coverings in public was an important issue facing modern Australia that needed to be discussed.

Senator Hanson said she wished to raise the issue of full face covering presenting a security threat not only to Parliament House, but also to the greater Australian public.

Senator Hanson said that she believed that full face covering, such as the burqa, were oppressive, presented barriers to assimilation, disadvantaged women from finding employment, were causing issues inside our justice system, presented a clear security threat and had no place in modern Western society.

Senator Hanson said that this was a debate that was happening across the world and Australia could not hide from a difficult conversation out of fear of causing offence.

Senator Hanson is scheduled to deliver a speech outlining the full extent of her position later today.

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