Pauline Hanson denies ‘Pakistan’ tweet aimed at Mehreen Faruqi was racist

Greens senator seeking $150,000 from One Nation leader, who wrote that Faruqi should ‘pack [her] bags and piss off back to Pakistan’

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Pauline Hanson has argued in court that a tweet aimed at the Greens deputy leader, Mehreen Faruqi, was not based on her skin colour or ethnic origins.

Faruqi has filed a federal court lawsuit over a September tweet by Hanson, the leader of One Nation, who wrote that she should “pack [her] bags and piss off back to Pakistan”.

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