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After two years of expensive legal proceedings, a Federal Court has found the Far-Right Australian Senator Pauline Hanson has breached the Racial Discrimination Act.
Aside from having a drink thrown over his in an Ipswich pub in the late 1990s, this marks the first time that Pauline Hanson has every really been held accountable for the things she says.
This is mostly because the Australian media thrives on the divisive hot-button soundbites that Senator Hanson has been handballing them for nearly thirty years, and has only ever presented her as a true blue Aussie who’s had a gutful.
However, it seems that technology might be catching up with Australia’s most famous bigot. After being taken to court for the racial vitriol that she plastered directly onto the social media platform X, then known as Twitter.
“Piss off back to Pakistan” is the particular comment that has caused two years of lawyer’s picnics.
The tweet was in response to a post by Senator Faruqi, who had revealed that she was not mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Faruqi’s lack of empathy for the late Monarch may be a result of the fact that Senator Faruqi’s family comes from one of those countries that was pillaged by the Royal pedophile Lord Mountbatten.
But Hanson also seems to think that her comments were not racist, and has spent two years in court denying having ever been racist.
This is an interesting defence, given Pauline Hanson’s 1996 maiden speech to Parliament is on Youtube for everyone to see. As is all of her other stunts, where she wore a burqua into Parliament in an attempt to ridicule the Muslim faith – or accused Aboriginal people of eating their own children, or the endless list of vitriol she has spewed about Asian-Australians.
Earlier this year, Senator Hanson gave evidence that she didn’t know Senator Faruqi was a Muslim at the time of the tweet, and didn’t seem to think that Pakistani-Australians were a different race, and therefore could not be victims of racism. Or something like that.
Justice Stewart concluded that the post was “anti-Muslim or Islamophobic” and that Senator Hanson’s large following empowered others to spew similarly racist remarks. This has always been her mission in politics – even before every redneck had access to 4G.
Senator Hanson has been ordered to delete her tweet and pay Senator Faruqi’s costs for the proceedings.
