Faruqi v Hanson: Pauline Hanson told ‘white’ Derryn Hinch to go back to where he came from, court told

Hansons’s legal team played video of her telling then senator to ‘go back to New Zealand’ as defence in racial discrimination case

One Nation senator Pauline Hanson told a white Senator to “go back to New Zealand” years before she tweeted that Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi, a Muslim, should “piss off back to Pakistan”, the federal court has heard.

The court also heard Hanson had targeted Faruqi, “a brown, Muslim, migrant senator”, with “a personal racist attack based on a response to a political tweet”.

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