Because Pauline Hanson refused to take down a tweet telling Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi to “p*** off back to Pakistan,” she was referred to as a “scumbag” in the Senate.
On Tuesday, fellow Greens senator Jordon Steele-John yelled at the head of One Nation, “you scumbag,” from across the Senate chamber.
Ms. Hanson refused to apologize during a contentious discussion after Ms. Faruqi had tweeted on the day of the Queen’s passing that she was “a leader of a racist empire.”
To those who knew the Queen, my condolences. I am unable to mourn the head of a racist empire established on the riches, land, and lives that were taken from colonized peoples, Ms. Faruqi said in a post.
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