Sky News podcast casts doubt on One Nation leader’s claim she did not know Faruqi was a Muslim when she sent ‘piss off back to Pakistan’ tweet, court told
The One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi. Hanson has denied racially discriminating vilifying Faruqi by tweeting that she should ‘piss off back to Pakistan’.The One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi. Hanson has denied racially discriminating vilifying Faruqi by tweeting that she should ‘piss off back to Pakistan’.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup “When I put the tweet out, I wasn’t aware of her religious background … I don’t ask people their religious beliefs,” she told the court. According to Faruqi’s lawyers, that includes a Sky News podcast in which the former senator Cory Bernardi, directly referenced Faruqi’s religion, describing her a a “Muslim woman” of “Pakistani origins” who had been in the NSW parliament and was now in federal politics.
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