One Nation leader suspended for seven days after members of Labor, Greens and crossbench vote to censure
Pauline Hanson has been censured by the Senate and suspended from the chamber for seven days after her burqa stunt and will be barred from representing the parliament in overseas delegations. In an overwhelming show of opposition to the repeat of her 2017 stunt, members of Labor, the Coalition, the Greens and crossbench voted for the censure motion. Only Hanson, her three fellow One Nation senators, and United Australia senator Ralph Babet opposed it. The Senate voted 55 to five to censure Hanson for her burqa stunt. The motion, as agreed by the Senate, stated that Hanson’s actions were “intended to vilify and mock people on the basis of their religion” and were “disrespectful to Muslim Australians”. The motion went on to condemn Hanson for disrespecting the Senate by ignoring and refusing rulings to remove the burqa, forcing the temporary shutdown of the Senate on Monday afternoon and seeing the suspension of Hanson from parliament for the remainder of the day. Government sources on M...