Pauline Hanson racially vilified Mehreen Faruqi with ‘piss off’ tweet, federal court rules

One Nation leader ordered to delete tweet and pay Greens senator's costs, likely to total many hundreds of thousands'

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Pauline Hanson engaged in racial discrimination against Mehreen Faruqi when she tweeted the Greens senator should pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan", a judge has ruled.

The judge ordered Hanson delete the offending tweet and pay Faruqi's costs for the proceedings. Faruqi's lawyer Michael Bradley told Guardian Australia that while costs had not been calculated in full, they would probably total many hundreds of thousands of dollars".

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