One Nation leader says justice’s decision raised alarm among Australians that their freedom of speech ‘is constantly under threat’

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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is appealing a court ruling that she engaged in racial discrimination against Mehreen Faruqi when she tweeted the Greens senator should “pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan”.

Justice Angus Stewart found Senator Hanson engaged in “seriously offensive” and intimidating behaviour against Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi in a September 2022 social media post that breached the Racial Discrimination Act.