The Australian Senate was suspended for more than one and a half hours Monday after a member strode into the chamber wearing a burqa as part of her protest against the Muslim garment.

Senator Pauline Hanson of the One Nation party, who is calling for burqas and face coverings to be banned across the country, was accused of “blatant racism” for her actions after being denied permission to introduce a bill that would outlaw the face-coverings in public.

She was subsequently slapped with a sanction preventing her from entering the Upper House chamber for the rest of the day, ABC News reports .

When she initially refused to leave the Senate floor, there was a heated exchange and President Sue Lines resorted to the rare move of suspending the chamber’s proceedings for more than one and a h

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