A man who told federal Senator Fatima Payman there was a bullet with her name on it in a drunken, racist email tirade has been spared a jail term.

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Sean David Sharman, 51, from Ballarat in Victoria, was arrested on April 3 by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and charged with using a carriage service to make a threat to kill the Australian politician.

Ballarat man walks free after 'hateful, racist' threat to Muslim Senator Fatima Payman. File picture

Magistrate Julia Barling said the threatening email was too offensive to read aloud in court.

"It is so offensive, it is disgusting

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