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Dominic Giannini

Human rights body to probe Hanson tweet

The Australian Human Rights Commission will investigate a tweet by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Greens leader Adam Bandt has welcomed an investigation into a tweet from Pauline Hanson he says was racist towards one of his senators.

Senator Mehreen Faruqi referred a tweet from the One Nation leader telling her to go back to her native country of Pakistan to the Australian Human Rights Commission.

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