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Miklos Bolza

BIZARRE: Pauline hanson hate speech trial set to open | Mind Blowing Facts

Senator Mehreen Faruqi will allege Senator Pauline Hanson engaged in racial discrimination. (Lukas Coch / Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson made a hateful tweet against a Greens senator because of her decades-long tendency to make similarly racist remarks, a Federal Court judge is expecting to be told.

A five-day hate-speech trial is scheduled to begin in the Federal Court on Monday when Greens federal deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi will allege Senator Hanson engaged in racial discrimination through a September 2022 tweet.

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