Pauline Hanson Takes Racial Discrimination Fight to High Court Over ‘Go Back to Pakistan’ Post
The One Nation leader argues Australia's racial discrimination laws restrict free speech, while Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi says they protect against racism.
TL;DR
- Pauline Hanson is taking her legal battle over racial discrimination laws to the High Court.
- The appeal challenges the constitutional validity of provisions in the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, including section 18C.
- The case originated from a Federal Court finding that Hanson engaged in unlawful racial discrimination with a social media post directed at Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi.
- Hanson's post told Faruqi to '[expletive] off back to Pakistan.'