Australian court upholds racial discrimination ruling against Pauline Hanson
Australian court upholds racial discrimination ruling against Pauline Hanson - Published Australian populist leader Pauline Hanson racially discriminated...
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- Australian court upholds racial discrimination ruling against Pauline Hanson - Published Australian populist leader Pauline Hanson racially discriminated against a Muslim senator in a 2022 tweet by telling her to return to Pakistan, a court has said, upholding an earlier ruling.
- Hanson had argued at the Federal Court that political communication should be protected but Justice Melissa Perry dismissed her appeal on Monday.
- But, she added, "I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonized people." Hanson responded with a post that was "a variant of the slogan, 'go back to where you came from'", Judge Angus Stewart ruled in 2024.
- Faruqi, the deputy leader of the Greens party, took Hanson to court after the tweet was posted, arguing it breached the racial discrimination act.
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Australian court upholds racial discrimination ruling against Pauline Hanson - Published Australian populist leader Pauline Hanson racially discriminated against a Muslim senator in a 2022 tweet by telling her to return to Pakistan, a court has said, upholding an earlier ruling. Hanson had argued at the Federal Court that political communication should be protected but Justice Melissa Perry dismissed her appeal on Monday. But, she added, "I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonized people." Hanson responded with a post that was "a variant of the slogan, 'go back to where you came from'", Judge Angus Stewart ruled in 2024. Faruqi, the deputy leader of the Greens party, took Hanson to court after the tweet was posted, arguing it breached the racial discrimination act. Hanson said she was "disappointed" with the decision and that she and her legal team would review it "with a view to commencing an appeal in the High Court of Australia". In the podcast, Robinson asked Hanson how Australia had ended up with "Pakistanis, Somalis, all of these African problems with violent Africans?" to which Hanson responded that it began when "they...