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Labor MP Terri Butler is being sued by a Queensland University of Technology student Calum Thwaites after she implied he was as a racist on the ABC’s Q&A program on Monday night.

Butler, the federal member for the inner-Brisbane seat of Griffith, received a defamation action filed in the Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday.

Thwaites is seeking damages of up to $150,000, accusing Butler of causing harm by falsely implying that he is a ­racist bigot and perjurer who deceived the Federal Circuit Court.

It comes after Butler suggested on the television program that Thwaites had used the word “n….rs” in a Facebook post in late May 2013 despite the federal court dismissing any charges against Thwaites earlier this month.

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“This is the situation. And we never found out because it was not determined,” she said on Q&A. “I’m saying this is what the allegations were and the matters were not determined.”

When told that Thwaites had repeatedly ­denied it was his Facebook post, Butler said: “He would say that, wouldn’t he?”

She will have until just before Christmas to file her defence to the proceedings.

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