Australian senator told she broke race law in Twitter comment

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson speaks in the senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra (AAP Image/AP)

An Australian judge has ruled that anti-immigration party leader Senator Pauline Hanson breached racial discrimination laws by crudely telling Pakistan-born Senator Mehreen Faruqi to return to her homeland.

Ms Faruqi sued Ms Hanson in the Federal Court over a 2022 exchange on the social media platform X, then called Twitter, under a provision of the Racial Discrimination Act that bans public actions and statements that offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate people because of their race, colour or national or ethnic origin.