An Australian judge has anti-immigration party leader Sen. Pauline Hanson breached racial discrimination laws by crudely telling Pakistan-born Sen. Mehreen Faruqi to return to her homeland.
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Justice Angus Stewart found that Hanson had engaged in “seriously offensive” and intimidating behavior.“It is a strong form of racism,” he said. “Today is a good day for people of color, for Muslims and all of us who have been working so hard to build an anti-racist society,” she said.The verdict demonstrated an “inappropriately broad application”of the section of the Racial Discrimination Act that she had breached, particularly in how that section impinged upon freedom of political expression, Hanson said in a statement.
Stewart described Hanson’s testimony as “generally unreliable," rejecting her claim that she did not know Faruqi’s religion when she posted.
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