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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson defended telling a senator to ‘p**s off back to Pakistan’ after a Federal Court found she racially vilified the Greens member.
Senator Hanson’s legal team has filed an appeal on the judgement, saying her sledge against Mehreen Faruqi wasn’t racist as she previously told another senator to ‘go back’ to New Zealand.
Her team also claimed Senator Hanson’s comment couldn’t be considered racial vilification as she didn’t mention Senator Mehreen’s skin colour.
The news comes after Senator Hanson copped a furious spray in the Senate on Wednesday, with a parliamentary colleague branding her a ‘disgrace to the human race’.
Senator Fatima Payman, who left Labor to set up her own party earlier this year, unleashed on the One Nation leader, accusing her of racism and claiming she spread hatred and division in a fiery exchange that made headlines across the country.
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