Australian court rejects racial discrimination appeal by Pauline Hanson

⁠Court upholds earlier ruling ⁠that post directed at Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi was unlawful.Published On 27 Jul 202627 Jul 2026An Australian court has unanimously rejected an appeal by right-wing leader Pauline Hanson to overturn a ruling that she racially discriminated ⁠against a Muslim senator.In 2024, Hanson was found to have violated racial discrimination laws after she told Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi to “pack your bags and p*** off back to Pakistan”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Argentina fans accused of violence, racism by Egypt, Cape Verde supporterslist 2 of 3Andy Burnham’s in-tray: The challenges facing the new UK PMlist 3 of 3Austria turns Adolf Hitler’s birthplace into police stationend of listThe leader of the anti-migrant One Nation party had made the comment in a social media post two years earlier, on the day Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II died, while responding to Faruqi’s remarks that she could not “mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples”.In their ruling on Monday, the three-judge panel of the Full Federal Court of Australia said that “none of the grounds” of appeal had been established, ...