Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Pauline Hanson getting suspended following burqa stunt

Australian politician Pauline Hanson has been suspended from Parliament for seven days after refusing to apologise for wearing a burqa in the Senate.

The One Nation leader caused outrage yesterday when she walked in wearing the religious garment.

Just five senators voted against the motion to censure her. 

Australian correspondent Murray Olds unpacked the reactions.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Very good afternoon, Heather.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Are you just dying to get this cross over and
done with? He can head off to the gig.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Well, I can't wait to see them. I saw actually
DC maybe that well the last time they came through Australia,
which was maybe five years to six years ago, and
I can't wait to go back and see I think
maybe the best live show along with the Rolling Stones
I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Mason videos though, Mars because it's it's looking a little.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
A bit shabby. I mean, Angus he's actually younger than me,
but he looks like he's he's one hundred and twenty seven.
It's the drugs, well apparently know he's been a clean skinny.
He just loves the darries. I mean, other people in
the band apparently love the herbs superb and they get
into the sauce. But Angus just loves a bugger and
a cup of tea and he's been doing both sixty years.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
The fags do make you look really old if you
keep at them. From okay, Pauline Hanson. Now, so she's
off for seven days on holiday, is she.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, she's been suspended of the Senate, censured and suspended
for seven sitting days. That's for wearing a burker into
the chamber yesterday. It took presiding offices in the Senate
an hour and a half to get her out. She
refused to leave. I'm not Laban as she sat there
in the burker. You know, she's pulled the same stunt
in twenty seventeen from memory, and she was eventually kicked

(01:35):
out then too. And then she goes on Sky and
News last night to Andrew Bolt, you know who gives
her an easy time. Oh look, I lie. I love everybody, Andrew,
I love everybody. It's got nothing to do with race
or I respect all religious all religious faiths. But what
she says, she's banging on about is the requirement for
Muslim women to wear a burker or a he Jack Well,

(01:57):
you know, Muslim Women of Australia was on on air
this morning saying, well, no one's forcing us to do it.
It's a religious act that we want to follow. My
husband isn't standing here, you know, with the rolling pen
going to belt me if I don't wear my burker So,
you know, once again, Hansen has sort of maybe looked
at the kool aid that is the current public opinion

(02:20):
figures to showing her party at unprecedented levels of support,
and she thinks she'll bug this on. And after she
was kicked out of the Senate, she's duck down to
her office, broken out the sandwich machine, the old brevels,
you know, sandwich press, and knocked up three wag Yu
steaks for herself and Barnaby Joys. He came down and
tucked into two of them mashed potatoes if you don't

(02:41):
mind while they sort of talked about whether or not
Barnaby's is going to join one nation. I mean to
be honest that these two deserve each other less. You
just get a room. It's just horrible, all right.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Listen, how long does it take you to save for
a house, for a deposit for a house in Sydney.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
In Sydney now on average of the well, are you
sitting down more than thirteen years to save the deposit?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Well?

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well, if that, I mean there are still people, you know,
I go on there on the weekends. I've got to
show on two GB on the weekends. You just you know,
you throw the line out. You know, how old is
the oldest child still at home with mom and dad?
I'm sixty three? Well, what are you doing there? Get out?
It's just really, really dreadful, and you know, young people
just despair. It is the single biggest issue for young

(03:34):
people in this country. And I dare say in New
Zealand and many other places as well, they've got no
hope of achieving the Aussie Green, which is to buy
your own house thirteen years on average for a Sydney
sider to save the twenty percent they need in regional
New South Wales. So that's the bush that's Coffs Harbor
or somewhere mudge twelve years to save. And how about this,

(03:54):
if you buy a home in Ride or you know,
the eastern suburbs of Sydney, were going to be servicing
them more if you could. You know, with a twenty
percent deposit, you're servicing a mortgage for the next thirty
five years, the mortgage taking more than one hundred percent
of median household income.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
How you can't, you can't even live.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
You can't do that, which is why people are being
forced to rent rent.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Listen to Mark, I'm loving this. If you could just
keep us, keep bringing us all the negative stories about
how stink Australia is so we can stop the brain
drawing from New Zealand to Australia. Then I'll shout you something, mate, Yeah,
I'll shout you a lovely one. Yeah, I'll shout you
your next dacy. Anyway, listen, tell me let us know
how the ACDC concert goes, because we've got concerning.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Love. I'll let you know, buddy.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Thanks mate, Off you go. Maria Holds, Australia correspondent for
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