Wednesday also marks the commemoration of Nakba Day, an annual day of mourning for the Palestinian people due to the mass displacement that occurred in the late 1940s.

The Speaker’s office was contacted for comment.

Southwick said on Wednesday that Edwards’ stance gave him comfort.

“The keffiyeh was [worn] by Hamas terrorists on October 7. It’s not something anybody should be wearing at parliament.”

De Vietri was wearing a red and white keffiyeh on the floor of parliament last week when a pro-Palestine protester interrupted Treasurer Tim Pallas’ 10th budget speech.

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“You preach the charter of human rights while Gaza is being annihilated by the Israeli Defence Force,” a woman shouted from the public gallery last Tuesday.

After the gallery was cleared, Southwick labelled the protest “appalling behaviour”. He also demanded that de Vietri be removed from the chamber for wearing a keffiyeh.

“If I came here with an Israeli flag today, I am sure many people would also equally take offence and ask me to take it off,” Southwick said at the time.

Edwards then asked de Vietri to remove the scarf, but she refused, and so the Greens MP was booted from the chamber for an hour and a half.

“Further incursions in relation to paraphernalia relating to either side of the conflict that we are witnessing, which is distressing everybody, will be treated with the most serious act, which is naming,” Edwards said at the time.

Naming an MP refers to having them suspended from the chamber for more than a few hours.

De Vietri was not wearing her scarf in the chamber on Wednesday.

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