Key facts
- Pauline Hanson's appeal against a racial discrimination finding has been dismissed.
- The original finding concerned a tweet where Hanson told Senator Mehreen Faruqi to "pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan".
- The court upheld that Hanson's social media post breached the Racial Discrimination Act.
- Hanson had argued that section 18C of the act infringed upon freedom of political communication.
A federal court has upheld a finding that Pauline Hanson engaged in racial discrimination against Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi. The decision affirms that Hanson's September 2022 social media post, in which she told Faruqi to "pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan," was unlawful and breached the Racial Discrimination Act.