THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Court Backs ‘Hate Speech’ Ruling Against Populist Leader Who Told Anti-British Muslim Senator to Go Back to Pakistan.
An Australian court has upheld a ruling that populist leader Pauline Hanson violated racial discrimination laws by telling a Muslim senator who attacked Queen Elizabeth II after her death to go back to Pakistan.
An Australian court has upheld a ruling that populist leader Pauline Hanson violated racial discrimination laws by telling a Muslim senator who attacked that late Queen and the British Empire to go back to Pakistan. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: An Australian appeals court has unanimously upheld a 2024 ruling that One Nation party leader Senator Pauline Hanson racially discriminated against Mehreen Faruqi by telling her to “piss off back to Pakistan ” in a 2022 social media post, after Faruqi attacked Queen Elizabeth II and Australia’s history following the late monarch’s death. The Full Federal Court rejected Hanson’s arguments that her remarks were protected by free speech and that Australia’s racial discrimination law was…Open