Pauline Hanson: “I'm so grateful to Basil. He's got common sense about him. He could see it … We're on the same lines on a lot of…”

I've been in Ben Roberts-Smith's shoes, as far as facing a criminal trial. I’ve been there, and it’s a distressing time, especially when you know you’re innocent, and I think Ben needs to know that people are supportive of him.

They didn’t want to ban the burqa, yet they denied me the right to wear it on the floor of Parliament. There is no dress code on the floor of Parliament, yet I’m not allowed to wear it. So to me, it’s been hypocritical.

We are a multiracial society. But we must be monocultural.

We cannot be a multicultural society.