The Federal Court has already heard three days of evidence and arguments in a racial discrimination lawsuit.
as to why a comment by the One Nation leader telling a rival Greens senator to go back to Pakistan was not a racial attack.
Today, Hanson's barrister Kieran Smark SC will continue his final submissions as to why the case against his client should fail.Faruqi is suing over a September 2022 tweet by the One Nation head sent on the day Queen Elizabeth II passed away. Hanson responded, saying she was appalled and disgusted with the Greens senator's comments, telling her to "pack bags and p--- off back to Pakistan".
Smark began his closing arguments on Wednesday afternoon, saying that his client's tweet had related to political topics such as colonialism.
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