Australian court upholds racial discrimination ruling against Pauline Hanson

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.
The One Nation party leader had appealed a 2024 ruling that she had breached the racial discrimination act when she responded to a post by Senator Mehreen Faruqi with an “angry personal attack” that was “anti-Muslim”.
Hanson had argued at the Federal Court that political communication should be protected but Justice Melissa Perry dismissed her appeal on Monday.
In a statement Faruqi said, “Today’s win is for every single person who has been made to feel that their belonging in this country is conditional,”.