Tony Abbott Is Going To Scrap That Whole ‘Burqa Ban’ Thing In Parliament House

Who needs to buy tickets to a circus when you’ve got a perfectly good one playing itself out for free in Canberra? There’s just as many clowns doing just as many flips. And someone’s finally got hold of that elephant in the room. Give us a bleacher seat and a bag of popcorn and we’ll be set.

In what’s more or less the “Soz lol” of political moves, Prime Minister Tony Abbott looks set to scuttle that pesky burqa ban in Parliament House that’s been doing the rounds this week.
Prime Minister Abbott – pictured above, presumably being told “Can you like, for one second, not be a fuckwit?” – will ask security officials to back down on the controversial move, which was announced by Lower House Speaker Bronwyn Bishop and Senate President Stephen Parry only yesterday.
The original announcement revealed that the ban would see anyone entering Parliament House wearing the full traditional Islamic dress be segregated from the public and seated in enclosed galleries – away from the general public – in places normally set aside for noisy inquisitive school children.
The reasons for the dramatic backdown remain unclear. Perhaps it was due to a change of heart. Or perhaps it was due to realising that letting any suggestion raised by Cory Bernardi come into practice is, at best, not a good look and at worst, complete fucking lunacy. Or perhaps it was the onset of a huge case of the CBFs.
Whatever the reason, this issue – that should never have been one in the first place – is, for now at least, over.
Team Australia.” How about it.
Photo: Indranil Mukherjee via Getty Images.

via SMH.

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