Pauline Hanson has launched another extraordinary attack on a Greens senator days after telling her to ‘p**s off back to Pakistan’.
The One Nation leader took offence to Pakistani-born Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi tweeting that she would not mourn the death of The Queen.
‘I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples,’ Senator Faruqi posted on Friday.
‘We are reminded of the urgency of treaty with First Nations, justice and reparations for British colonies, and becoming a republic.’
Pauline Hanson (pictured) told a Greens senator to ‘p**s off back to Pakistan’ after she called the Queen ‘a leader of a racist empire’ on the day of her death
Senator Faruqi is planning to move a censure motion against Senator Hanson when parliament returns on September 26 and is considering a complaint to the Human Rights Commission.
But Senator Hanson was undeterred by this threat, or the ‘racist hate speech’ the Greens deputy claimed her comments stirred up.
‘Mehreen Faruqi showed extremely poor judgment with her insensitive and highly offensive statement about The Queen, and as is so typical of pants-wetting Greens, now that she’s been called out she’s pretending to be a victim,’ she said.
‘It’s classic “Karen” behaviour: all entitlement and no responsibility. Mehreen Faruqi is not a victim of anything.
‘Faruqi is just another rich, privileged, out-of-touch Greenie faithfully executing her dear leader’s strategy to disrespect and insult the institutions which have helped make Australia one of the most socially inclusive and diverse nations in the world.
‘Including the very institutions which allowed her to come to Australia and make it her home.
‘Condolences to those who knew the Queen. I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples,’ Green senator Mehreen Faruqi posted to Twitter
Hanson: ‘You took citizenship, bought multiple homes, and a job in a parliament. It’s clear you’re not happy, so pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan’
Last year Senator Faruqi slammed the British empire for ‘enslaving millions of black and brown people around the world’.
Senator Hanson, who once moved a motion in the Senate that it was ‘ok to be white’, earlier tweeted Senator Faruqi had taken advantage of everything Australia gave her.
‘Your attitude appalls and disgusts me. When you immigrated to Australia you took every advantage of this country,’ she wrote.
‘You took citizenship, bought multiple homes, and a job in a parliament. It’s clear you’re not happy, so pack your bags and p**s off back to Pakistan.’
Senator Faruqi is considering a complaint to the parliamentary workplace support system or Australian Human Right Commission over Senator Hanson’s tweet.
She called on Labor and independents like Jacqui Lambie to support her motion and strongly condemn Senator Hanson.
The One Nation leader’s tweet fuelled ‘racist hate’ against her, including emails telling her to ‘go kill yourself’ or ‘fuck off to where you came from while you still can’.
Greens leader Adam Bandt (pictured with wife Claudia) waited just five hours after The Queen’s death was announced to call for Australia to ‘move forward’ and become a republic
Senator Faruqi said ‘No decent workplace would tolerate such brazen discrimination’ and needed to show hostility to immigrants wouldn’t be tolerated.
‘People who look like me have all been told to go back to where they come from at one point or another. I’ve copped it more times than I can count, but the hurt and sorrow it causes never lessens,’ she told The Guardian.
‘Of course there’s going to be disagreement about The Queen’s legacy in the wake of her passing, but there’s never an excuse for attacking someone for who they are.
‘I won’t be silenced and neither will the millions of others around the world affected by the brutal reality of colonisation.’
Senator Faruqi’s post followed Greens leader Adam Bandt writing it is time to move forward and become a republic only five hours after the monarch’s death was announced.
‘Rest In Peace Queen Elizabeth II. Our thoughts are with her family and all who loved her,’ he began – his entire condolence statement.
‘Now Australia must move forward. We need Treaty with First Nations people, and we need to become a Republic.’
Mr Bandt is a staunch republican who refuses to put the Australian flag with its Union Jack corner behind him at press conferences.
‘Given you hate our nation so profoundly, I would encourage you to take a hike out of Australia and don’t look back. I think the nation would join me in celebrating your departure,’ Liberal National MP Phillip Thompson responded to Greens leader Adam Bandt
His comments were met with a rebuke from Liberal MP for Townsville and former soldier Phillip Thompson who labelled him ‘a clown of the highest order’.
‘You’re a clown of the highest order and a human of the lowest form,’ he wrote on Twitter.
‘Given you hate our nation so profoundly, I would encourage you to take a hike out of Australia and don’t look back. I think the nation would join me in celebrating your departure.’
Former deputy chief medical officer Dr Nick Coatsworth said Mr Bandt’s post showed why the Greens were a minor party.
‘Just quietly compare this with the statesmanlike words from Albanese and Dutton and reflect on why these guys are perpetually at 10 per cent. Have some respect, son,’ he said.
The Queen’s death was announced at 3.30am AEST and Australian morning TV shows broke the news an hour later, followed by a statement by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at 4.47am.
Mr Bandt waited until 8.27am to post his tweet calling for an Australian republic.
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