Australian Senator Pauline Hanson has been barred from the nation’s Parliament until 2026 after wearing a burqa and high heels in the upper house chamber as a protest against the Muslim head-to-ankle covering. She has firmly refused to apologize for her actions and desire to “stand up for women.”

The leader of the One Nation Party was accused of being a “racist” on Monday when she strode into the Senate shrouded in the garment to protest fellow senators’ refusal to consider her bill that would ban the burqa and other full-face coverings in public places, as Breitbart News reported .

Senators suspended her for the rest of the day on Monday, AP reports .

In the absence of an apology, they passed a censure motion Tuesday that carried one of the harshest penalties against a senator in d

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