Burqa-wearing women to be seated with children in parliamentary gallery

By James Massola, Latika Bourke
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:23pm, first published October 2 2014 - 7:10pm

Women wearing burqas will be separated from the public and forced to sit with schoolchildren in a glassed-off area of federal Parliament's public galleries under security measures announced on Thursday.

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