The long-running legal dispute between One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi over Hanson's "go back to Pakistan" remark is reaching its final stage in court. The case has become a significant test of Australia's racial discrimination laws as they apply to political speech, with Faruqi arguing the comment was racist and unlawful, while Hanson has defended it as legitimate political commentary.

The dispute stems from a 2022 social media exchange in which Hanson told Faruqi, a Pakistan-born Muslim senator, to "piss off back to Pakistan" after Faruqi made critical remarks about the British monarchy following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Faruqi subsequently pursued a racial discrimination complaint against Hanson through the Federal Court, a case that has proceeded through multiple hearings and appeals, with this latest court date understood to represent a decisive or concluding step in the proceedings.