Discrimination

A Melbourne sex worker has discontinued his discrimination claim against two financial service providers that denied him an EFTPOS machine, on the proviso that the companies will not refuse services to customers engaged in lawful sex work. 

The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal has ruled that social media giant X must face a human rights complaint brought by a Muslim advocacy group over allegedly dehumanising material on the site.

The Northern Territory public housing authority has moved to throw out a class action’s claims that it engaged in racial discrimination by failing to maintain public housing in remote Aboriginal communities. 

Mehreen Faruqi wants to reopen a racial discrimination trial to rebut evidence by One Nation senator Pauline Hanson that she didn’t know the deputy Greens leader was Muslim when she wrote in a tweet that the senator should “piss off back to Pakistan”. 

One Nation senator Pauline Hanson has been accused of lying under oath after claiming she did not know deputy Greens leader Mehreen Faruqi was Muslim when she wrote in a a tweet that the senator should “piss off back to Pakistan”. 

Pauline Hanson’s tweet that Mehreen Faruqi should “piss off back to Pakistan” was not a fair comment on a post the deputy Greens leader made after Queen Elizabeth II died that was critical of the monarchy, Faruqi argued as trial kicked off in her racial discrimination case against the One Nation leader.