ANKARA (AA) – An Australian court has ruled that Senator Pauline Hanson violated laws with her racial remarks against a Muslim lawmaker, according to local media reports. Federal Court Justice Angus Stewart rejected arguments from Hanson’s lawyer, stating that the senator’s tweet constituted an “angry personal attack...
Australian senator Fatima Payman from the ruling Labor Party has been “indefinitely suspended” from the party caucus. This was after she backed a motion to recognize Palestine as a state. Payman had been suspended after a conversation with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the official residence Lodge, she told the Australian Broadcasting Co...
In a Sydney court, Australian Sen. Pauline Hanson faced cross-examination over alleged Islamophobic comments directed at Sen. Mehreen Faruqi. Hanson, leader of One Nation, denied knowing Faruqi’s Muslim identity when telling her to “piss off back to Pakistan” on social media. Faruqi, of the Greens, initiated the case over Hanson’s social med...
ANKARA (AA) — An Australian opposition lawmaker has claimed that the Labor government blocked her attempt to introduce the names of slain Palestinians in parliament. Mehreen Faruqi, deputy leader of the Australian Greens, said she attempted to introduce the names of people killed by the state of Israel in Gaza in the Senate. “I have [&he...
