Judge rejects One Nation leader’s application to halve amount she was ordered to pay Greens deputy leader
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Pauline Hanson has lost a bid to reduce the costs she is liable to pay Mehreen Faruqi over the Greens deputy leader’s successful racial discrimination case.
In November the federal court ruled in favour of Faruqi finding that Hanson’s tweet telling her to “pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan” was racially discriminatory, and ordering Hanson to pay costs.
