Given the damage it produces on those rules which allow the life in community, ensure the dignity of the person and equality between sexes, this practice, even if it is voluntary, cannot be tolerated in any public place.
Not only that, but it causes identification issues, how come anyone wearing a burqa can enter a bank, but if you wear a ski-mask you are arrested/kicked out? It IS the same thing.
Other countries have noticed this problem, the first paragraph above is a quote by the French Gov't.
Liberal senator Cory Bernardi:
"We need to stop the expansion of fundamentalist Islam in Australia lest we lose the foundation, the essence, the very culture of our great nation."
"This is a system where women are considered as second class citizens and homosexuals can be hanged,"