https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/17/an-australian-senator-wore-a-burqa-in-parliament-then-called-for-a-ban-on-muslim-immigrants/?utm_term=.d6af09ba6d12#comments

Fantastic leadership. Australia needs to wake up.

Faceless in a long black burqa, the woman took a front-row seat in the Australian Senate chambers Thursday and sat like that for several minutes: silent, well aware she'd caused a scene.

Then she rose with a dramatic flair, whipped the veil off her bright red hair and cast the burqa to the floor, her identity revealed.

The senators behind her did not look remotely surprised. The woman was Sen. Pauline Hanson, one of Australia's most acerbic politicians, and she was about to make yet another long speech about Islam.

“I'm quite happy to remove this because it is not what should belong in this Parliament,” Hanson said, flipping her hair back in place as she began. “The central issue in this motion before the Senate is the right of others to see a face.”

Hanson said no security guards had tried to identify her as she walked anonymously into the chambers (the Senate president denied this, according to the Associated Press). And she chastised a senator who shook her hand on the way, when he had never done so before.

“It was the burqa that drew him” Hanson said.

Over the next 20 minutes, she would warn of hypothetical burqa-clad bank robbers, of “migrants who want to come here and change the foundation stones of our way of life,” of a Muslim war on Christmas — and she'd eventually demand a ban on burqas and Islamic immigration alike.