Tanya Plibersek, the social services minister spoke to ABC News Breakfast this morning where she was also asked about Pauline Hanson’s Islamophobic stunt.

Plibersek said:

I don’t remember the last time someone in a burqa robbed a bank. I think it’s completely standard, you know, rehashed Pauline Hanson, headline grabbing behaviour.

The only thing that you can be guaranteed of is that some girl in a headscarf on her way to school today is going to be bullied on the train. I think the other thing that’s disappointing about this is we’ve had warnings from the ASIO director that the biggest, you know, fastest growing threat in Australia
is from right-wing extremism.

We saw a bunch of Nazis lined up outside New South Wales Parliament a couple of weeks ago. I don’t see Pauline Hanson calling out that behaviour or that risk. She’s once again going for a group of people who will be, you know, threatened, abused and perhaps even physically assaulted on their way to
work or school today.