Justice Christopher Carr said the West Australian Senator had breached the Racial Discrimination Act with his comments to a journalist in May 1997. He ordered Senator Lightfoot to pay costs of up to $10,000. Perth woman Hannah McGlade had taken civil action in the Federal Court, seeking an order that Senator Lightfoot admit his comments vilified Aborigines, that he pay her costs and that he make a donation to the Aboriginal Advancement Council (AAC). Justice Carr granted Ms McGlade's request for a declaration that Senator Lightfoot's comments vilified Aborigines. ``I think that it would be fit to grant the declaration sought,'' he said. ``It is a useful and appropriate way of recording publicly the unlawfulness of the making by the respondent of comments which received considerable publicity and were reasonably likely to offend and insult,'' Justice Carr said. He also ordered Senator Lightfoot to pay most of Ms McGlade's costs. However Justice Carr rejected Ms McGlade's request that the Senator be ordered to make a donation to the AAC. ``I take into account also the fact that the order that the respondent pay the applicant's costs will result in a payment by him of several thousand dollars, possibly in the order of about $10,000,'' Justice Carr said. Today's decision came five years after Ms McGlade first complained about Senator Lightfoot's remarks to an Australian Financial Review journalist that:``Aboriginal people in their native state are the most primitive people on earth.''