Good afternoon. An emotional Mehreen Faruqi has said she “will be speaking out more loudly and more strongly than ever before” after the federal court ruled Pauline Hanson engaged in racial discrimination when she told the Greens senator to “pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan”.
The proceedings centred on an interaction the pair had on Twitter in 2022, shortly after Queen Elizabeth II died, when Hanson responded to a tweet in which Faruqi wrote: “I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples.”
