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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson made a hateful tweet against a Greens senator because of her decades-long tendency to make similarly racist remarks, a Federal Court judge is expecting to be told.
A five-day hate-speech trial is scheduled to begin in the Federal Court on Monday when Greens federal deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi will allege Senator Hanson engaged in racial discrimination through a September 2022 tweet.
At the time, Senator Hanson wrote that Senator Faruqi should 'pack (her) bags and piss off back to Pakistan'.
The tweet came in response to the Greens senator's comments following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Senator Faruqi wrote she could not mourn
