Pauline Hanson thinks she speaks for the mainstream but her burqa stunt shows she is a bit player with bad instincts | Tom McIlroy

Nearly 30 years after she first entered politics with a firebrand maiden speech about Asian immigration, Pauline Hanson remains a committed fringe dweller, with narrow political interests and bad instincts.

Suspended from the Senate on Tuesday, her decision to don a burqa in the chamber a day…