Pauline Hanson wants Prime Minister Tony Abbott to take the controversial issue of banning the burqa to a referendum.
Ms Hanson floated the idea while in Ipswich on Friday visiting her old fish and chip shop with independent candidate Patricia Petersen.
"I find it very confronting (and) un-Australian. I don't like what I'm seeing," Ms Hanson said.
"If politicians haven't got the intestinal fortitude to make this decision, then I suggest put it to a vote to the people and let them have their say in a referendum."
She went so far as to expressly ask the prime minister to make the public poll happen.
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The average Australian was "fed up" with the sight of the dress, she said.
"Come on, women, break the shackles. This is Australia," she said.
"If you want to live that way of life, go back to a Muslim country."
Ms Hanson, 60, is attempting to resurrect her political career by contesting the seat of Lockyer in rural Southern Queensland.
Local farmer and businessman Ian Rickuss has held the electorate for the Liberal National Party the since 2004.
He currently enjoys a 18.8 per cent margin.
The One Nation founder - who resigned from the party in 2002, only to return to the helm last year - also spoke about the need to get rid of halal food certification in Australia.
She claims money from halal certification goes to a Muslim organisation which distributes funds to mosques, before it is channelled into terrorist cells.
But asked to name specific mosques in Australia where this was an established practice, Ms Hanson said: "I don't head ASIO, I'm an ordinary citizen".
"ASIO have picked up that this money has been funded through to fund Syria and the terrorism there - so where does this money come from in the first place?" she said.
Comment has been sought from Halal Australia in response.
Queenslanders head to the polls on January 31.
