An Australian judge has found Sen. Pauline Hanson guilty of violating Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act for a 2022 comment she made on X, then Twitter, regarding Pakistan-born Sen. Mehreen Faruqi.
The incident came around the time of the late Queen Elizabeth II's death, in response to which Faruqi wrote on X that she couldn't mourn the loss of "the leader of a racist empire." Replying to Faruqi, Hanson posted, "piss off back to Pakistan."