What Australia needs is equality. If Muslims can walk around, drive a car and enter banks etc in disguise them give the same rights to all Australians to cover thier identity if they want. Don't divide the country and allow rights to only some.

If banks thought it was a threat to public and their staff safety, they would have banned it long ago.

They haven't. So if an institution with the biggest duty if care to its customers and assets doesn't give a toss, why should anyone else?

Banks did feel that that these "disguises" were and are a danger to the public and thier staff safety

but were likely advised by their lawyers that anti religious discrimination would be expensive in court.

As said before, in the UK at least, in situations where a persons identity needs to be established or confirmed a burka wearing woman is obliged to uncover her face.

As would anyone wearing a ski mask, full face crash helmet etc.

So I fail to see how a burka wearing man could board a flight out of the UK without being identified. Passports of those leaving the UK are not routinely checked by UKVI, but they are by the airlines.

But banning the burka because criminals may wear one to disguise themselves whilst committing their crimes is not going to stop the criminals; there are plenty of other ways of disguising oneself; from ski masks to stockings over the head. Would you ban all those, too?

But they actually are banned wear by law in australia if they cover the face. They are a disguise and there are specific laws about them.