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

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The One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, is appealing against 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 Hanson engaged in “seriously offensive” and intimidating behaviour against Faruqi in a September 2022 social media post that breached the Racial Discrimination Act.

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