Australian court upholds racial discrimination ruling against populist leader
The Australian Federal Court has upheld a ruling that One Nation leader Pauline Hanson racially vilified Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi in a 2022 social media post. The court rejected Hanson's appeal, affirming that her comments breached the Racial Discrimination Act.
Share Save Add as preferred on Google Helen Livingstone Sydney Getty Images Pauline Hanson has lost her bid to overturn a court ruling that she racially vilified Senator Mehreen Faruqi 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.
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