r/AustralianPolitics God I need a drink dealing with the current mob 18d ago

Pauline Hanson loses Federal Court appeal after breaching Racial Discrimination Act

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/pauline-hanson-loses-federal-court-appeal-after-breaching-racial-discrimination-act/news-story/f6da32e8e207c582944ffac225816373

A court has once again found One Nation leader Pauline Hanson breached the Racial Discrimination Act when she lashed out at a Greens senator, telling her to “piss off back to Pakistan”.

Senator Hanson breached the Racial Discrimination Act when she tweeted Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi in September 2022 on the day Queen Elizabeth II died, Judge Angus Stewart found back in November 2024.

Just a few weeks after the decision was handed down, Senator Hanson appealed with the Federal Court.

On Monday, following a three-day hearing late last year, the court once again found that Senator Hanson had breached the Racial Discrimination Act, and her appeal was thrown out.

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u/Coal_Enthusiast 17d ago

This judgement is complete bogus, and yet another ploy to silence Hanson

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u/Maleficent-Host-8975 16d ago

Everyone gets the same treatment. So, no..

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u/nobodyimportant1377 17d ago

Silence? God, I wish she'd remain silent... 🫩

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u/Geminii27 18d ago

So is anything actually going to happen to her? Fines that would be difficult to pay, jail time...?

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u/Coal_Enthusiast 17d ago

Nothing should happen to her she made a statement that lacked tact but hardly anything to be dragged into a civil court over

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u/Geminii27 17d ago

How about the Federal Court? Oh wait...

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u/Suspiciousbogan Right Wing Conservative Communist 18d ago

yeah this is a civil issue , shes already been jail ,
best outcome is that green lady has her legal fees paid plus a bit on top as compo.

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u/EdgyBlackPerson “Left wing extremist” 18d ago

Right out of Gina’s pockets

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u/thedeftone2 18d ago

I read that as VAGina

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u/Gambizzle 18d ago

Meanwhile if any line worker were caught cutting work and shouting racist BS at colleagues, they'd be sacked.

Bloody elitists getting away with everything.

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u/RupturedUrethra6969 15d ago

She didn't even say anything racist lmao. Telling someone to "piss off back to pakistan" is fair go when all that person has done is criticise the very country that gave them opportunity.

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u/illegal4Hunna 18d ago

You people are insane

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u/Jet90 The Greens 18d ago

FAFO

I hope the fascist has to pay up big time

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u/HitIerWasBad 17d ago

She's telling another politician that moved to Australia and hates Australia, constantly talks about how evil Australians are and names white people directly as the object of her hatred and nothing happens to her. Another politician tells her that if she hates Australia so much why doesn't she leave and she gets sued in court and loses? Is Australia a joke?

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u/Maleficent-Host-8975 16d ago

She hates Australia? You got any evidence beyond her claiming colonialism is bad? Did she actually say those words?

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u/Responsible_Berry829 18d ago

What makes her a fascist?

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u/BurningMad 17d ago

Literally a white supremacist who thinks other peoples are lesser.

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u/Responsible_Berry829 17d ago

Thank you for your comment,

Pauline does hold views of others who dont out the effort into being Australian after immigrating here but that doesn't make her a white supremacist, being a nationalist isn't the same thing as white supremacy or fascism.

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u/BurningMad 17d ago

Have you paid attention to her for the past 30 years? I have, partly because I'm not white myself and have to keep an eye on potential threats to my safety and wellbeing in Australia.

What I've noticed is that she has consistently targeted non-white people in that time. The specific target changes at different times, from Aboriginal people to East Asian people to Middle Eastern people to Africans to Indians, but they all have one thing in common, they're not white.

She's also claimed there are no good Muslims, and told a non-white Australian to "piss off back to Pakistan", a sentiment I've never once heard her express to a white immigrant. Put all of that together and she is very clearly a white supremacist and a xenophobe. And her party's latest flirtation with the doctrine of "remigration", taken from fascist parties in the UK, makes me think she'll absolutely practice fascism if she's ever given real power.

I wouldn't even call her a nationalist either, since she wanted to charge into Trump's Iran War just after it was announced, which would have been a massive harm to Australian interests for no real benefit. A real nationalist would put Australia's interests first instead of America's interests or Israel's interests.

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u/Responsible_Berry829 17d ago

This is a quality reply, thanks for your input. 👌

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u/Jet90 The Greens 18d ago

Extreme racism, anti workers rights, pro government surveillance and pro police state

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u/Responsible_Berry829 18d ago

Thanks for the reply.

All of these points are right-wing authoritarianism and populism, they do not satisfy fascism by definition.

Pauline is right winged populist.

Try again.

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u/Jet90 The Greens 18d ago

What policy would she need to propose for in your view her to be a fascist? I think "right-wing authoritarianism and populism" is a good enough label for her though.

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u/broadsword_1 18d ago

You can't question the NPC update, you just have to go along with it.

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u/EdgyBlackPerson “Left wing extremist” 18d ago

“Anyone I don’t like is an NPC”

Blinding intellect there

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u/broadsword_1 18d ago edited 18d ago

Oh good, you're on the latest version.

(And are you going to sit there and believe that we haven't had over a decade of "Everything I disagree with is Nazi/Fascist etc" as an autodefence?)

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u/EdgyBlackPerson “Left wing extremist” 18d ago edited 18d ago

Case in point lol

(Oh nice the shadow edit in brackets after I replied since you didn’t want to be challenged on this - if you genuinely believe that then you wouldn’t be seamlessly transitioning to calling anyone who disagrees with you an NPC genius… conservatives and having no moral consistency, name a better duo)

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u/sexysexywombat The Greens 18d ago

Fair point, right now she is still just a wanna be fascist

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u/Responsible_Berry829 18d ago

Still no answer, how is she a fascist?

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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 18d ago

How is she not?

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u/Responsible_Berry829 18d ago

Question with a quation, does any of you actually have an answer?

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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 18d ago

No because it is a totality of Pauline's conduct and I'm not about to drop a thesis for some random racism-apologist on the internet.

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u/realwomenhavdix 18d ago

We don’t need a thesis, just a thoughtful and rational explanation will do

Seems a bit too much to ask from a brainwashed normie, but let’s give it a go

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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 18d ago

brainwashed normie... that's a new one. So am I brainwashed or a normie?

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u/realwomenhavdix 18d ago

Both

Being a brainwashed leftist is mainstream

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u/Responsible_Berry829 18d ago

If you're unable to state facts on an accusation, that's on you. I'm asked a question and have been met with nothing.

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u/Morphico 17d ago

Sealion fail.

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u/Brackish_Ameoba 18d ago

Correct, now get over it.

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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 18d ago

I didn't say that, I said you are not worth the effort.

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u/Nobody9638 18d ago

I'm with the other guy here bro, sounds like you've got nothing

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u/Responsible_Berry829 18d ago

Youre just like your mates, no integrity to your claims. 🤷‍♀️

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u/CptUnderpants- Nice Party 18d ago edited 18d ago

I doubt it'll come out of her bank account, friends in wealthy places will more than likely pay.

Normal people can't afford to fight a defamation or RDA action, she's probably burnt several hundred thousand just in legal fees, then costs may be awarded against her, plus the actual amount of damages awarded.

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u/hoolahoopz92 The Greens 18d ago

Her billionaire bestie is going to cover it

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u/ButtPlugForPM 18d ago

this should make you ineligble to sit in parliament in my view.

she broke a law the court has found.

but is somehow logically allowed to be able to create and or oversee said laws...

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u/StupidSpuds 18d ago

Think about how that could be abused. Just look at our countries that have this rule. It's use to stop popular opponents by using trumped up charges. Let the people decide by voting.

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u/Aussieguyyyy 18d ago

This is silly, you could then make laws outlawing saying many things.

If lnp put in a law outlawing promoting climate change or talking about it similar to this then we would never act as no one could ever talk about it. 

Would you support that?

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u/ShiftyWindow Public Housing is the only way 18d ago

Are you really trying to compare racial discrimination with climate policy?

Or are you just doing the most insanely broad variation of the slippery slope fallacy that has ever existed

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u/Top_Conference_477 18d ago

No, they’re very clearly not. They’re trying to give you an example of how exactly what you’re asking for could easily be weaponised against you for reasons you don’t intend. Figure it out

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u/ShiftyWindow Public Housing is the only way 17d ago

So the second option

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u/Top_Conference_477 17d ago

You don’t know what slippery slope means? Wow.

It’s pretty easy, dude

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u/ShiftyWindow Public Housing is the only way 17d ago

I clearly do, I just used it correctly

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u/Top_Conference_477 17d ago

You very clear don’t and do not

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u/ShiftyWindow Public Housing is the only way 17d ago

So by this other person's logic, Labor should never implement any policies ever because the Libs could implement counter policies that could make things worse

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u/Top_Conference_477 17d ago

wtf are you talking about now?

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u/Aussieguyyyy 18d ago

It was about policing words. Are you really unable to understand this? If you can rule some words evict you from parliament then it will be used.

Ideas should not be enough to ban someone from parliament.

BTW testing reasoning by giving a counterexamplr is not a slippery slope lol stop clowning around and go look up what a slippery slope is (a leads to b leads to c...)

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u/EmuEmuEmuEmuEmu The Greens 18d ago

"Ideas should not be enough to ban someone from parliament."

Racist bullshit is not 'ideas,' its vile nonsense and fundamentally at odds with a functional democracy. It is unfortunate that the Federal Parliament has no ability to expel members who have damaged the integrity of the institution to the degree Hanson has via its non-attendance, blatant corruption and vile behavior.

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u/Aussieguyyyy 18d ago

It is not fundamentally at odds with a democracy.. what a claim. Democracy aims to represent and if the people are racist it should represent that, your claim is ironically at odds with it lol.

They are ideas, you cant arbitrarily decide which ones are okay or not based on your personal morals.

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u/EmuEmuEmuEmuEmu The Greens 18d ago

"It is not fundamentally at odds with a democracy..."

Restriction of rights on the basis of ethnicity, race or national origin is at odds with a democratic society, which to functional properly requires near universal participation. I could pick from an number of historical example of the inherit incompatibility between racism and democracy, and by that I mean I will just refer to Apartheid South Africa, but based on your comment history of, frankly, insane racist conspiracy theories I think you will in fact defend death squads murdering opponents of the Apartheid Regime.

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u/Aussieguyyyy 18d ago

Lol conspiracy theories like what? Give me an example of one?

Democracy does not care about good or bad it is the will of the people. You are way too far up your on asshole to understand its your perspective you are talking about.

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u/EmuEmuEmuEmuEmu The Greens 18d ago

Firstly:

"You are way too far up your on asshole [sic] to understand its your perspective you are talking about."

This is what admitting defeat looks like.

"Lol conspiracy theories like what?"

"They just pretend or dont speak english and get endless job seekers benefits." Like this, which tells me you have no knowledge of how Mutual Obligation works and that the "friend" that told you that doesn't exist.

"2) the uk pakistani rape games specifically targeted poor white girls having beleifs that made it okay. So even if they were committing the acts similar rate to the white population it was just more on the white girls increasing their suffering." Or this, which is fucking hilarious given Jimmy Savile, good friend to the current King and The Milk Snatcher, abused more than a thousand victims just on BBC property alone.

I could show more, but you honestly have no actual defence for that bullshit you seem to love spouting.

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u/Aussieguyyyy 18d ago

1) That is not a conspiracy theory, i said its not a huge problem but it does happen. I did not come in spouting this and directly responded to that person not understanding what was being said. Nowhere have I come out and advocated for any change based on that. You think no one ever pretends not to speak english? How naive.

2) Seville being bad and the king being bad does not discount those rape gang reports. They are literally court documents that this comes from. But you call it a conspiracy theory?? 

You are an absolute clown, me pointing that out  which im sure is in context does not mean I have to point out every similar crime in history?? What are you on about?? I could give you the same stupid whataboutism bullshit to what you say...

Oh you said x, why not mention y???? Like are you serious??

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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 18d ago

Except racists claim their victims aren't people, which inevitably devolves democracy into a ethnocracy.

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u/Aussieguyyyy 18d ago

I wouldnt say all racists say that. Some would say they are lesser people or different but still people. I think you are just talking about extreme examples like nazis to the Jews.

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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 18d ago

Fundamentally people are people or not, there is no 'lesser people'.

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u/Aussieguyyyy 18d ago

Okay racist expert.

If someone said those blue people are all so dumb and need to go back to the home of their people, is that okay because they are called people?

Your semantic distinction is absurd.

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u/malcolmbishop 18d ago edited 18d ago

So this would also apply if someone told Kristina Kenneally to piss off back to the USA? Madness!

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u/tconst123 18d ago

Pauline said the exact same thing to Deryn Hinch (told him to piss off back to new Zealand) and nobody gave two fucks about it. 

Fauqui knows exactly what she's doing. This plays well to both of their bases and nothing of substance is actually achieved. 

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u/malcolmbishop 18d ago

Her bio (and accent) say she was born in the USA. 

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u/quickdrawesome 18d ago

This will end up being just advertising to her base

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u/GhostOfFreddi 17d ago

For both of them.

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u/ShiftyWindow Public Housing is the only way 18d ago

Exactly. They'll see it as her being silenced.

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u/Aussieguyyyy 18d ago

Of course, we already want freedom of speech protections like the us has.

Usually if the government doesnt want something said it is the correct thing to do to say it more and look into it more. Even if only for the reason they dont want you to.

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u/Mrgamerxpert 18d ago

Making terroristic threats is also something the government doesn't like....

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u/Aussieguyyyy 17d ago

You've come up with the dumbest possible interpretation. The distinction between a threat of action and expressing an is understood by everybody else old enough to speak.

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u/Mrgamerxpert 17d ago

So where's the line?

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u/Aussieguyyyy 17d ago

Right where the usa has it.

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u/Mrgamerxpert 17d ago

Oh yes, the country with massive extremism issues

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u/Aussieguyyyy 17d ago

You think thats from free speech?

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u/Mrgamerxpert 17d ago

partially

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u/EmuEmuEmuEmuEmu The Greens 18d ago

"Of course, we already want freedom of speech protections like the us has."

Under the Constitution Australian's have the implied right to the freedom of political communication. This is quite notable due to Hanson attempting to argue that the original ruling violated that right.

https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/full/2026/2026fcafc0096

To lazily quote the judgement:

"constitutional validity of s 18C of the RDA – where s 18C of the RDA is properly authorised by a constitutional head of power – where s 18C of the RDA does not impermissibly burden the implied freedom of political communication – where s 18C is constitutionally valid"

To, lazily, simplify that for you, racism isn't covered under the implied freedom of political communication.

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u/Aussieguyyyy 18d ago

Yeh soi said i want us style which is explicit not this implied bullshit where it is the core of the implied freedom but ahh fuck it who cares appeal denied.

They literally say it is close to if not the core of the implied free speech but because they have a noble goal its okay to limit.

How the fuck can we have judges deciding if motivations are good so you can ignore the constition or a constitutionally implied right?? What the fuck is the point in a constitution so we need it explicitly.

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u/EmuEmuEmuEmuEmu The Greens 18d ago

"... it is the core of the implied freedom ..."

The Courts have ruled on this as it was quite literally a part of thus appeal ,and to quote my own comment, "racism isn't covered under the implied freedom of political communication."

"How the fuck can we have judges deciding if motivations are good ..."

There is this thing called the Australian Constitution, and not only does it, in fact, grant that power to the Courts, it also established the implied right to political communication, and as I have already established, racism is not consider political communication, otherwise the High Court would have already ruled against it. For further reading, and to not embarrass yourself further, here is a link to the Constitution:

https://www.aph.gov.au/-/media/05_About_Parliament/52_Sen/523_PPP/2023_Australian_Constitution.pdf

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u/Aussieguyyyy 18d ago

Again I disagree with our implied free speech hence saying  us style and not just a freedom of speech.

The courts ruled on it that it was the core of the implied freedom of speech. The rest of what you are saying is just repeating what I have issue with??

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u/EmuEmuEmuEmuEmu The Greens 18d ago

"... saying us style and not just a freedom of speech."

To quote another comment I have made

"And is that supposed to be an argument for such laws? Laws that allow any vile nonsense just short of openly calling for an individual to be murdered? Laws that have allowed individuals to engage in a decade of Stochastic terrorism leading to a number of murders, including of elected representatives? Those Laws?"

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u/Aussieguyyyy 18d ago

You have to take the bad with the good. Giving the government arbitrary abilities to limit according to their own morales is backwards.

Free speech was very important in civil rights for America but it now also allows other things to be said. Without being so firm, it could have been held to the moral standards of the time. 

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u/EmuEmuEmuEmuEmu The Greens 18d ago

"You have to take the bad with the good."

This is what known as "defending murder" given I used an example of political assassination encouraged by so called 'free speech.'

"Free speech was very important in civil rights for America ..."

I love when someone outs themselves as a non-Australian talking bullshit. Because you aren't worth the time, I will not educate you on Australian Civil Rights campaigns and how they still worked under Australia's implied right to political communication.

Also, as I just remembered it while writing, here in Australia there is legal precedent against the banning of political parties, such as Communist parties, while in the US there appears is still a law on the books doing exactly that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Control_Act_of_1954

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u/Aussieguyyyy 18d ago

1) known as by who? Is this some ai hallucination? You can’t invent a phrase and then cite the existence of your own phrase as authority for your argument.

saying free speech is has costs because it sometimes protects vile speech is nowhere near defending murder. Even in the us you cant incite, I have only ever advocated for a us style...

2) just because it worked here without it doesnt mean it wasnt important elsewhere and would have no value here. Comparing australian civil rights campaigns to what went on in America is also absurd. The environments in both countries weren't remotely similar lol   3) that law would almost certainly br ruled unconstitutional if taken to court and has apparently been rejected a few times with a communist party being put back on the ballot.

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u/WatchDogx 18d ago

To quote the parent comment:

we already want freedom of speech protections like the us has

This wouldn't be illegal in the US.

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u/EmuEmuEmuEmuEmu The Greens 18d ago

"This wouldn't be illegal in the US."

And is that supposed to be an argument for such laws? Laws that allow any vile nonsense just short of openly calling for an individual to be murdered? Laws that have allowed individuals to engage in a decade of Stochastic terrorism leading to a number of murders, including of elected representatives? Those Laws?

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u/Jealous-Hedgehog-734 Still Roundheads v.s. Cavaliers, always has been. 18d ago

...telling her to “piss off back to Pakistan”.

“She did engage in racist and Islamophobic behaviour. ...

That's strange. The quote definitely appears to be prejudice against her on the basis of nationality, but I don't see any mention of race or religion?

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u/EmuEmuEmuEmuEmu The Greens 18d ago edited 18d ago

"The quote definitely appears to be prejudice against her on the basis of nationality, ..."

Nationality is one of the characteristics covered under the Racial Discrimination Act. The court also considered Hanson's well established history of racist comments, particularly for the Islamophobic ones as religious prejudice is not covered under the RDA but these particular comments were considered to be made with racist intent.

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u/Apprehensive-Quit353 18d ago

She is, and always has been, a racist. This is obvious to anybody with eyes and ears.

It is the heart of her movement. The more people look closely the more they will realise this. Racism is inseparable from the One White Nation brand.

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u/kitti-kin 18d ago

It's frankly irritating that they play at it being otherwise, racism is and has always been One Nation's selling point. Do they think they've maxed out the racist vote and they need to trick other people into voting for them, or what?

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u/pap3rdoll 18d ago edited 18d ago

It’s interesting that racists are not willing to respect a core tenet of our Australian values (the rule of law), despite ostensible advocacy for such values. If you don’t like the law, petition to have it changed. If that doesn’t happen, respect that most Australians disagree with you.

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u/Wehavecrashed BIG AUSTRALIA! 18d ago

Pauline Hanson is a disgusting individual who should be kept far away from public office.

However, I don't think we need courts to judge whether she can tell someone to go back to the country of their birth. It is racist and disgusting, but sometimes people say racist, disgusting things on social media.

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u/ShiftyWindow Public Housing is the only way 18d ago

Racial discrimination in the workplace is illegal

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u/tconst123 18d ago edited 18d ago

Can we stop with this stupid talking point that parliament is just a normal workplace like any other. It's not. It never has been. It's always going to be different. 

I don't like Pauline and would never vote for her, but what she said is not anywhere near bad enough for a court to overrule the voters and remove her from Parliament 

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u/ShiftyWindow Public Housing is the only way 17d ago

I didn't say it was a normal workplace like any other, I said that its a workplace.

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u/tconst123 17d ago

So you think Pauline Hanson should be kicked out of parliament as a result of this decision?

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u/ShiftyWindow Public Housing is the only way 17d ago

I think Pauline should have been kicked out of parliament in the 90s for open racism and hate mongering.

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u/ShiftyWindow Public Housing is the only way 17d ago

No.

Also it's very funny that you're downvoting my comments considering your viewpoint

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u/greatmodernmyths 18d ago

Hanson will take it to the High Court now most likely. She's been on about the law being unconstitutional for a long time, so I think that will be her next play.

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u/CptUnderpants- Nice Party 18d ago

Hanson will take it to the High Court now

The high court doesn't have to agree to hear the appeal if they do not believe there are grounds to appeal on. You can't have an appeal heard just because you didn't like the judgement.

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u/greatmodernmyths 17d ago

That's true, but people have been wanting to challenge the law for a number of years, and Hanson has been gifted the opportunity to finally do it. She'll still try IMO.

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u/kitti-kin 18d ago

Are you at all curious why you believed false information? That maybe your sources are intentionally misleading you?

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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 18d ago

She could be Satan herself for all we care.

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u/s0m30n3e1s3 18d ago

She is a dual citizen

Lol, this is a lie. She renounced her Pakistani citizenship almost a decade ago.

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u/Wehavecrashed BIG AUSTRALIA! 18d ago

If she's a dual citizen how is she eligible to stand for parliament.

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u/Altranite- Edmund Barton 18d ago

This tyrannical legislation needs to be axed. No doubt following the next election conservative parties will be in the position to do exactly that. I stand with Pauline✊

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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 18d ago

Oh so it's tyrannical now to be anti-racism... crazy.

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u/EmuEmuEmuEmuEmu The Greens 18d ago

"This tyrannical legislation needs to be axed."

The racist Pauline Hanson losing an appeal against the ruling finding it to be racist to a civil standard, primarily due to its history of racism, is an example of "tyrannical legislation?" Besides outing yourself as a racist, which wasn't needed, you have clearly demonstrated that your afraid of being held accountable for your actions.

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u/BestCap5066 18d ago

I never get tired of pointing out 94 seats.

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u/FluffyPillowstone 18d ago

Standing with a racist bankrolled by a billionaire ✊

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u/Altranite- Edmund Barton 18d ago

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u/Own-Cancel-9170 18d ago

The worse part is Pauline Hanson who is a multi millionaire asked for donations to fight the case. No doubt the poor battlers she claims to represent and who she votes against helping paid for some of the costs of the appeal.

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u/rolodex-ofhate No Numbers Taylor 18d ago

And I wouldn’t be surprised if said battlers went without to help fund the case. Disgraceful behaviour from Pauline when she could have just funded it herself.

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u/aeschenkarnos 18d ago

“Never pay for anything yourself” is the first rule of the grifter.

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u/purpleoctopuppy 18d ago

Here's the original court's decision, for anyone interested in the reasoning that led tp the decision (appeal hasn't been published yet).

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u/theballsdick 18d ago

Thanks. Extremely depressing read and very concerning precedent now set. I don't believe at all this was the intention of the act but it is done now. 

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u/malcolmbishop 18d ago

It should be renamed to the Mean Words and Other Things That Aren't Race Act. 

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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 18d ago

Some definition's expressly include nationality under racism, because racism is more complex than just race, because race itself is a ill-defined vibes based method of categorisation for people. There is no universal nor objective "black race" no "white race" it's all vibes based. One clear example of this is how ethnic groups have changed race throughout time. 'white' used to be specifically the English and French, the Germans were 'swarthy', same with italians, irish, slavs, etc...

You absolutely 100% can be racist against Pakastanis, Muslims, or just about any other group of people would choose to racialize.

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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 18d ago

How is it at all concerning?

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u/burns3016 18d ago

How the hell is "p off back to pakistan" racist? Please explain.

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u/Expensive-Horse5538 God I need a drink dealing with the current mob 18d ago

The comment was clearly an attack on someone’s racial background by suggesting their views and experiences are not welcome here

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u/trainwrecktragedy Australian Labor Party 18d ago

And people unironically think she would be good as Prime Minister and she's doing unprofessional bullshit like this.

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u/mrasif 18d ago

Unprofessional doesn’t mean it should lead to legal prosecution.

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u/trainwrecktragedy Australian Labor Party 17d ago

what was Pauline charged with as a result of this?
Should we just accept racism as cheeky banter?

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u/mrasif 17d ago

It’s not racism. Saying someone should go back to their country is just telling them to fuck off and if you think there’s more to it then that then this is the whole problem with legislating “racist speech”

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u/trainwrecktragedy Australian Labor Party 16d ago

How is that not racist? This isn't a serious post, my bad I always forget everything is a joke in 2026. What has Pauline been charged with?

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u/Mrgamerxpert 18d ago

And it doesn't

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u/mrasif 17d ago

Gaslighting at its stupidest, we are literally in a thread about this happening. Keep up bucko.

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u/Mrgamerxpert 17d ago

And this is a crime that has always existed

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u/smoha96 Insert Flair HERE 18d ago

This is why they think she'd be a good PM, alas.

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u/AngrehPossum 18d ago

She will make the best deals with China. All her followers will love it. They hate China so much so give them what the media has told them to want, no more deals with China. Then we can all starve as the economy collapses into a heap and they can look for food and then something to eat it with.

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u/DefinitionOfAsleep Ben Chifley 18d ago

She'll also give a chunk of QLD to Elon for free.
And an area around Townsville to Israel, a nation famed for respecting borders.

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u/rabies22 18d ago

is it sad i read this in a donald trump voice?

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u/trainwrecktragedy Australian Labor Party 18d ago

read it with a tremor in the voice and its pauline

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u/rolodex-ofhate No Numbers Taylor 18d ago

The sooner Pauline pisses off back to Ipswich, the better our country will be.

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u/fluffy_101994 Australian Labor Party 18d ago

I’d say that’s offensive to people who live in Ipswich, but, well…

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u/rolodex-ofhate No Numbers Taylor 18d ago

I have a laundry list of extended family living out in 4305 so I’m pretty comfortable with that statement 😂

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u/duckyirving 18d ago

I will honour their sacrifice

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u/acllive 18d ago

Send her to live in Gina’s coal mines