Jessie Taylor

A judge has given the applicants in a case accusing two Sydney University academics of antisemitic comments more time to file a strike-out bid after a default, but said he was "sick and tired" of lawyers seeking forgiveness instead of permission.

A date has been set for a potential fight over the defences of two University of Sydney academics in racial discrimination cases that accuse them of making antisemitic statements.

A discrimination class action has got the go-ahead to revise its case over a Western Australia law allowing detention of residents who defaulted on fines, which is said to have disproportionately affected Indigenous people.

One Nation politician Pauline Hanson has asked the High Court to overturn a finding that she breached the Racial Discrimination Act with a tweet that said Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi should “piss off back to Pakistan”.

A judge will hear an application to amend by the applicants in two discrimination cases against University of Sydney academics accused of making allegedly antisemitic statements, saying the issues in the pleading had to be ruled on.

A local NSW council has been ordered to pay the owners of a block of land it acquired in North-West Sydney $12.7 million, with the court finding that if not for the acquisition, the land could have been used for residential purposes. 

X Corp can't challenge a finding that it must face a complaint of religious vilification in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal, with an appeal tribunal saying a member was not wrong to draw on defamation and consumer case law.

University of Sydney staff members who claim a professor unlawfully “named and shamed” them as pro-Israel have lost their bid to continue their racial discrimination case as a class action, while the university has lost a summary dismissal bid in a similar case.

One Nation's Pauline Hanson was not motivated by racism but provoked by the hypocrisy of rival politician Mehreen Faruqi when she fired off her "piss off back to Pakistan" tweet, her lawyer told the Full Federal Court Monday. But Faruqi's barrister has told the appeals court the accusation of hypocrisy was itself racist.

One Nation senator Pauline Hanson will dispute adverse credit findings made against her as part of her appeal of a judgment in a racial discrimination case by Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi.