Subhead:One Nation leader remains defiant after the Senate handed her a seven-day suspension.#
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Pauline Hanson has dismissed a historic seven-day Senate suspension over her dramatic burqa protest, making it clear she is unfazed by the upper house’s ruling.
The Senate voted 55–5 to censure Hanson, with only One Nation senators and Ralph Babet opposing the motion. The motion claimed her behaviour was “intended to vilify and mock people on the basis of their religion”.
The penalty marks the harshest sitting-day suspension handed down in federal parliamentary history. It is only the fifth seven-day suspension since 1901 and the first since 1979.
