A tweet by Pauline Hanson telling Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi to “piss off back to Pakistan” was “not nice” but it did not fall foul of racial discrimination laws, the One Nation senator’s barrister has told a court.
“It’s not nice. It’s not a nice tweet. It wasn’t a polite tweet. It wasn’t meant to be a polite tweet. Senator Hanson was angry, and she thought she had reason to be angry, and she wanted readers … to be aware of her anger and the reason why, or the reasons why.” Smark submitted on Thursday that the exemption “is satisfied in this case”. He said the One Nation leader was pointing out that Faruqi had “received the benefits from Australia, from the system, which she was now, on the death of the Queen, attacking”.
“Why is it hypocritical of someone else to be critical of aspects of Australia or its history, unless it’s because they’re from somewhere else and they’re not actually welcome here?” Stewart asked.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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