This means that in some Muslim countries Muslim women have been set free, or liberated, from the men-enforced wearing of the burqa. Bruce changed this to “his twisted interpretation continues with the assertion that in liberal Muslim countries the burqa is banned.” That gives what I said a different and wrong meaning. 

George Brandis literally said to Pauline “No, I will not ban the burqa.” This means that he will allow the Muslim men to continue to enforce their women to wear the burqa, based on the false understanding that this is required by their religious beliefs, and therefore the wrong conclusion that we must not interfered with or insult the Muslim religion.

Wrong, nonsense.

Nowhere in the Koran or in any Muslim literature is the burqa prescribed. If it had been, no Muslim group would have dared to ban it

Therefore, Pauline’s efforts to have the burqa banned in Australia would liberate many Muslim women from the men-enforced wearing of it, which boils down to standing up for Muslim women’s right to freedom and equality. This is not a mystery at all Bruce, as you call it.

George Brandis, with all this information and more available and with this intellect, ought to know the facts and support Pauline Hanson instead of coming down on her with a show of emotion. And so should the Greens and the Labour party. But they base their thinking and arguments on false premises - such as insulting the Muslim faith and on their misplaced hatred for Pauline Hanson. Know the facts before you judge and misjudge.

Besides all this is the fact that the burqa has been used to conceal explosives and to disguise men.

Moreover, burqa-wearing women often lack exposure to sunlight and so lack in vitamin D which affects their health.

Enough said.

"No one deserves to die on our roads". This is the caption on the TAC (Transport Accident Commission) road sign that confronts me each day as I drive to work. And each time I see it I say to myself, "and no one deserves to die in our slaughterhouses".

But over the next few days, things will get even worse for tens of thousands of Australian animals because they will die, not in "our" slaughterhouses but in slaughterhouses in distant, foreign lands where animal welfare laws are non-existent.

In lands where all animals have their throats sliced open while they are fully-conscious and where animals awaiting death must look on in terror as their trussed and tried companions meet their gruesome and grisly fate.

So what is special about this week? It's the week of the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice; the week when an estimated 100 million gentle and inoffensive sheep, cattle, goats and camels are subjected to a terrifying and violent death.

As a consequence of Animals Australia's ongoing investigations over the last ten years, our Federal Government was forced to introduce the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) which requires Australian animals to be sent only to approved abattoirs. But, every year, investigators find it is not being adhered to and our animals are still being subjected to horrendous suffering.

For the government to allow Australian animals to be sent to this cruel and nightmarish fate is both shameful and inexcusable.