An Australian courtroom dominated Friday that Sen. Pauline Hanson violated race legal guidelines with remarks focusing on a Muslim lawmaker.
Federal Court Justice Angus Stewart rejected arguments from Hanson’s lawyer, stating that the senator’s tweet constituted an “angry personal attack” with no discernible connection to the problems raised by Senator Mehreen Faruqi, as reported by ABC News.
The decide ordered Hanson, the chief of the right-wing populist occasion One Nation, to delete her tweet and pay Senator Faruqi’s prices for the proceedings.
Senator Faruqi took Hanson to the Federal Court after her submit in September 2022, which was made on the day Queen Elizabeth II died, claiming that Hanson had breached the Racial Discrimination Act.
In April of this yr, Hanson advised the courtroom that she didn’t know Faruqi was Muslim when she instructed her to “piss off back to Pakistan” on social media. This tweet was a response to Faruqi’s post, in which she stated that she could not mourn someone who was “the chief of a racist empire.”
Justice Stewart characterised Hanson’s submit as “anti-Muslim or Islamophobic,” noting that her massive following on social media empowered others to share related messages on X, previously Twitter.
Speaking to reporters, Senator Faruqi described the judgment as “landmark,” “historic,” and “groundbreaking,” asserting that it “will set a new precedent for how racism is viewed in this country.”
“It is about time Pauline Hanson faced the consequences of the racism that she has been perpetrating against Muslims, people of color, and First Nations people for decades,” Faruqi stated.
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