Australia on Monday dumped a controversial plan to make women wearing Burqa sit in separate sound-proof glass enclosures at Parliament House after Prime Minister Tony Abott’s intervention.
The backdown followed a decision on October 2 by House Speaker Bronwyn Bishop and Senate President Stephen Parry to have a different seating for women wearing Burqa after a request from Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi to ban the religious headwear from being worn in the building.
Bernadi considered burqa as a symbol of oppression and un-Australian and wanted it to be banned from parliament on security grounds.PTI
