Pauline Hanson’s barrister said the One Nation senator was not literally telling Mehreen Faruqi to go home when she told her to “piss off back to Pakistan”.
A tweet by Pauline Hanson telling Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi to “piss off back to Pakistan” was “not nice” but it did not fall foul of racial discrimination laws, the One Nation senator’s barrister has told a court.
Smark said Hanson “undoubtedly ... could have expressed herself differently and more reasonably, and in a way that the court would find more acceptable”.Advertisement Hanson posted in reply: “When you immigrated to Australia you took every advantage of this country ... It’s clear you’re not happy, so pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan.”under the Racial Discrimination Act because the comment was reasonably likely to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate, and it was done because of her race, colour or national or ethnic origin.
“Senator Hanson herself is outspokenly critical of government policy and aspects of Australian society. That doesn’t make her a hypocrite. That doesn’t make her un-Australian.
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