India, Nov. 25 -- Australian senator Pauline Hanson has been suspended from Parliament for the remainder of the year after entering the Senate wearing a burqa as part of a protest calling for a nationwide ban on the garment, media reports said.

Hanson, 71, leads the anti-immigration One Nation party and has long campaigned for prohibiting full-face coverings in public places.

Hanson refused to apologise, prompting the Senate on Tuesday to pass a censure motion that bars her for seven consecutive sitting days-a penalty rarely imposed in recent decades.

With Parliament rising for the year on Thursday, her suspension will carry over until it reconvenes in February.

She accused the Senate of hypocrisy, saying, "They didn't want to ban the...