Court Finds One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson Racially Vilified Greens Senator

Published on November 1, 2024

A court has found One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson committed racial discrimination after told a Greens senator to “piss off back to Pakistan” on X. The message was aimed at Greens Senator and Deputy Leader Mehreen Faruqi in September 2022, on the day Queen Elizabeth II died. Faruqi had posted that she could not mourn for someone who was “the leader of a racist empire” that was supposedly built on the foundation of “stolen lives, land, and wealth of colonised peoples.” In response, Hanson wrote: “Your attitude appalls and disgusts me. When you immigrated to Australia you took every advantage of this country. You took citizenship, bought multiple homes, and a job in a parliament.”...

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