Commonsense prevails, eventually, with backdown on Parliament's burqa ban

By James Massola
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:58pm, first published October 20 2014 - 2:06pm

The decision by Parliament's presiding officers to reverse course on a move to segregate women wearing a burqa or niqab was inevitable.

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