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A senator who is campaigning for a national burqa ban has been barred from Parliament for the rest of the year for wearing the Muslim garment in the chamber.

Pauline Hanson, the 71-year-old leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation party, was accused of performing a disrespectful stunt on Monday.

She waltzed into the Senate shrouded in a head-to-ankle garment to protest against fellow senators’ refusal to consider her Bill that would ban the burqa and other full-face coverings in public places.

Senators suspended her for the rest of the day on Monday.

In the absence of an apology, they passed a censure motion on Tuesday that carried one of the harshest p

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