Queensland senator Pauline Hanson has been referred to the Human Rights Commission after she ended a broad-sided defence of racist comments directed at another senator, who she told to “piss off back to Pakistan”, with an offer to take them “to the airport”.
Hanson launched into the tirade after the Greens tabled a motion calling on the Senate to censure the One Nation leader for racist, “anti-migrant” comments directed at senator Mehreen Faruqi in the wake of Queen Elizabeth II’s death.
Earlier this month, Faruqi offered her condolences to those “who knew the Queen”, but said she couldn’t mourn “the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples”.
In a reply on Twitter, Hanson claimed Faruqi had taken “every advantage of this country” when she “immigrated to Australia”, before telling her to pack her bags and…
