Pauline Hanson's tweet a 'fairly strong form of racism'

The federal One Nation leader's response to a tweet about the death of Queen Elizabeth II was racist and likely to cause negative health impacts, a court has been told.

Senator Hanson responded, saying she was appalled and disgusted with the Greens senator's comments, telling her to "pack bags and piss off back to Pakistan". Under cross-examination by Senator Hanson's barrister Sue Chrysanthou SC, Deakin University's Professor Yin Paradies disagreed that there was no basis to say the tweet would affect readers."That form of racism... is likely to have a negative impact on somebody vicariously because it's a fairly strong form of racism," he told the court on Tuesday.

"The vicious obliteration of this imponderably beautiful culture and the profound devastation of Country by patriarchal colonial capitalist 'civilisation' continues unabated in 2023 as it has for the last 235 years," he wrote."The fact of you holding those views … has affected your approach to answering the questions about my client's conduct hasn't it?" she asked.

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