Senate calls on PM to expel Christensen

The Senate has called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to expel controversial backbencher George Christensen from the coalition party room for attending an anti-Islam function.

Labor, Greens and the Nick Xenophon Team joined forces on Tuesday to pass two separate motions in the upper house condemning Mr Christensen for attending a fundraiser for the controversial Q Society.

The Greens motion called on Mr Turnbull to expel Mr Christensen, the way Pauline Hanson was once expelled from the Liberal party for her racist views.