Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help finance the racial vilification case she has brought against Pauline Hanson, saying “race hate in Australia is only getting worse”.
Faruqi launched legal action against Hanson in the federal court in May, after the One Nation leader told the Greens senator to “pack [her] bags and piss off back to Pakistan” in a tweet, in response to Faruqi’s thoughts on the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Hanson has said she will fight the racial vilification claim, arguing freedom of political speech.
