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Name: Court finds Pauline Hanson racially vilified Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi
Uploaded: 2024-11-01T10:47:40.007Z
Duration: 2 min 13 s
Description: Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi has won a landmark racial discrimination case against fellow senator and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson. The federal court ruled that Ms Hanson did make racist remarks in what the judge called an "angry personal attack" on social media in 2022. Mehreen Faruqi told reporters outside the Federal Court that the ruling sets a new precedent for hate speech in Australia.

Court finds Pauline Hanson racially vilified Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi

Published 1 November 2024, 8:57 am

Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi has won a landmark racial discrimination case against fellow senator and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson. The federal court ruled that Ms Hanson did make racist remarks in what the judge called an "angry personal attack" on social media in 2022. Mehreen Faruqi told reporters outside the Federal Court that the ruling sets a new precedent for hate speech in Australia.

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