One Nation chief Pauline Hanson made a hateful tweet towards a Greens senator due to her decades-long tendency to make equally racist remarks, a Federal Court docket choose is anticipating to be advised.
A five-day hate-speech trial is scheduled to start within the Federal Court docket on Monday when Greens federal deputy chief Mehreen Faruqi will allege Senator Hanson engaged in racial discrimination by a September 2022 tweet.
On the time, Senator Hanson wrote that Senator Faruqi ought to ‘pack (her) baggage and p*** off again to Pakistan’.
The tweet got here in response to the Greens senator’s feedback following the demise of Queen Elizabeth II.
Senator Faruqi wrote she couldn’t mourn the passing of the chief of a ‘racist empire constructed on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples’.
Senator Mehreen Faruqi will allege Senator Pauline Hanson engaged in racial discrimination
Within the lawsuit, the One Nation head is accused of partaking in illegal offensive behaviour of racial discrimination due to the tweet.
Senator Faruqi is searching for $150,000 in damages.
In response, Senator Hanson has denied the social media submit was despatched resulting from anybody’s race, color, nationwide or ethnic origin.
In March, Justice Angus Stewart dismissed an try and remove a variety of proof proposed by the deputy Greens chief for the trial.
This included professional reviews on racism and the phrase ‘return to the place you got here from’, in addition to proof purporting to point out a decades-long tendency by Senator Hanson to make racist remarks.
‘(If) she tends to make public statements due to the race, color or nationwide or ethnic origin of an individual or a bunch of individuals or to interact in commentary per holding white supremacist views, it’s extra seemingly that she printed the tweet in query due to’ the asserted motive,’ Justice Stewart wrote beforehand.
Each senators are anticipated to get into the witness field to provide proof.
Senator Hanson wrote that Senator Faruqi ought to ‘pack (her) baggage and p*** off again to Pakistan’.
