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Pictures of women in war play a pivotal role in the battlefield of political ideas, argues a feminist historian who examines how images and attire are used and seen in war zones and occupied lands.
Hijab controversy in Nigeria’s public schools has further exposed how religion has polarised Africa’s most populous nation.
Boris Johnson has attacked Muslim women for covering their faces. Now he wants the whole of the UK to do so.
From Turkey to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women are battling for their rights - but religion is not at fault.
Some argue the former foreign secretary’s remarks about Muslim women are a play to win support from certain parts of his party. But he really isn’t that organised.
Muslim women and men are choosing to wear Islamic clothing in the face of rising religious hatred.
As he grapples with the power issue, Malcolm Turnbull has swung increasing emphasis onto coal.
Tony Abbott was commenting on a motion for a ban George Christensen will move when the Nationals’ federal conference meets this weekend.
Controlling what women wear won’t curtail terrrorism.
Pauline Hanson’s stunt of wearing a burqa into the Senate on Thursday drew a swingeing attack from George Brandis.
The recent burqa ban in Morocco highlights tensions between radical Salafists and a moderate Islamic government that has taken steps to further women’s rights.
With tensions already high, telling Muslim women not to dress a certain way at the beach will only make things worse.
It may be politically convenient, but the ban by some French cities on the burkini bathing assumes all Muslim women view covered clothing in the same way.
Speaker Bronwyn Bishop and Senate President Stephen Parry have reversed their decision to segregate veiled women watching parliamentary proceedings – but the women will have to show their faces on entering…
Parliament’s presiding officers, Speaker Bronwyn Bishop and Senate President Stephen Parry were hung out to dry by Tony Abbott over their ill-judged plan that veiled women would be segregated behind glass…
So leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives want to ban the burqa in open parliamentary chambers on the grounds of “security”. They would relegate wearers to a glass box usually reserved…
A call to ban the burqa has permeated Australian political discussions since police raided the homes of suspected Islamist extremists in Sydney and Brisbane on September 18. Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi…
The “ban the burqa” campaign which has dominated Canberra this week has been one of the ugliest displays of religious intolerance and parliamentary ignorance in recent years. It has culminated in a particular…
For a prime minister who says he wants to promote Team Australia, Tony Abbott made a right mess of it this week. Somehow he managed to let the burqa, which as he correctly says no one actually wears to…
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