{"id":199329,"date":"2025-11-25T12:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/199329\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:38:07","slug":"mcguirk-the-great-australian-burka-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/199329\/","title":{"rendered":"MCGUIRK: The great Australian Burka controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I present to you, dear reader, the latest great free speech\/immigration\/culture war <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/nov\/24\/pauline-hanson-faces-widespread-condemnation-after-repeating-disgraceful-burqa-stunt-in-senate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">controversy from down under<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPauline Hanson has worn a burqa in the Senate, repeating a widely condemned stunt as she sought to ban the Muslim face covering on national security grounds \u2013 despite being unable to name a single safety incident linked to the burqa.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I present to you, dear reader, the latest great free speech\/immigration\/culture war controversy from down under: \u201cPauline Hanson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1128,9,10,1067,18,13,14,49593,6,19,17,44399,11,12,15,16,110363,5,110364,790,5874,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-199329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-free-speech","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-islam","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-latestnews","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-muslims","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-pauline-hanson","27":"tag-politics","28":"tag-religion","29":"tag-top-stories","30":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115610380227926693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}