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It's Pauline Hanson in a burqa. Here she is, wearing a burqa, during Question Time, this afternoon. Pauline Hanson, a burqa, Question Time. This week. This week in politics. This year. A long year.Too much, really, to say. I am just one girl, with a keyboard. Typing words. Putting them together. Trying to get the information out there. Pauline Hanson! Wearing a burqa.Honestly? Burn it all to the ground. Parliament house, I mean. Our constitution, too, maybe. All of it. We need to… I think we need to start again? Something… has happened. Gone wrong. Things, they don't feel right.
You know when Trump was elected and people claimed it was proof that the human race is a simulation? That life is a computer game and the aliens got bored and walked away from the controllers? And, left unsupervised, we elected a reality TV host as the leader of the free world? I didn't really subscribe to that, at the time. But now, I think. I think I am quite a lot more convinced. I think we need the aliens to come back.
I would really like them to come back.OK. Hanson was wearing the burqa, extremely insensitively, to propose… a burqa ban. George Brandis, the Attorney General, literally on the verge of tears, called her out on it. Even George Brandis recognises that we are in too deep, here. George Brandis isn't sleeping too well these days, you get the feeling.
One Nation has issued this press release:"Senator Pauline Hanson has attended question time dressed modestly in a full burqa and will later be delivering a speech in Parliament calling for the Government to ban full face coverings in public.
"Senator Hanson said she made the decision to attend question time in a full face covering because she believed the need to ban full face coverings in public was an important issue facing modern Australia that needed to be discussed.
"Senator Hanson said she wished to raise the issue of full face covering presenting a security threat not only to Parliament House, but also to the greater Australian public.
"Senator Hanson said that she believed that full face covering, such as the burqa, were oppressive, presented barriers to assimilation, disadvantaged women from finding employment, were causing issues inside our justice system, presented a clear security threat and had no place in modern Western society."
Other experiments in racism this week: Dick Smith, the guy from the electronics stores and aggressively patriotic food products, launched a campaign in the style of that 1980s Grim Reaper HIV awareness ad. In which… the Grim Reaper warns us about immigrants, instead of AIDS. Get it? The immigrants. They are a disease.
Oh, and our national youth broadcaster put a literal Nazi troll on the airwaves because something something ABC charter.
I'd suggest we all run away and move to New Zealand, but our Foreign Minister burned that bridge earlier this week.Follow Kat on Twitter