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Rita PanahiColumnist and Sky News host

Rita is a senior columnist at Herald Sun, and Sky News Australia anchor of The Rita Panahi Show and co-anchor of top-rating Sunday morning discussion program Outsiders.Born in America, Rita spent much of her childhood in Iran before her family moved to Australia as refugees. She holds a Master of Business, with a career spanning more than two decades, first within the banking sector and the past ten years as a journalist and columnist.

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One would expect universal condemnation but the AFL has maintained a deathly silence. Picture: AFP

Virtue signalling AFL too gutless to back Israel

Don’t expect the AFL and its clubs to live up to the standards it demands of everybody else – when it should be speaking out, it stays mute and fails to take a stand.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 14: A woman reacts during a speech by Campaign Director of Yes 23 Dean Parkin at the Inner West for 'Yes2023' official referendum function at Wests Ashfield Leagues Club on October 14, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. A referendum for Australians to decide on an indigenous voice to parliament was held on October 14, 2023 and compelled all Australians to vote by law. Early voting began on Oct. 2, and activity has been intensifying in both the YES and NO camps, with multiple polls showing the YES campaign headed for defeat nationally. Australia requires a "double majority" of both the states and voters across the country to trigger constitutional changes, with most referendums in the past having failed. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

Voice was rejected because it was rotten to the core

Don’t listen to Waleed Aly’s snide but simplistic analysis of the referendum outcome, the real reason it didn’t succeed was because it was racist in principle and costly with far-reaching consequences.

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HOBART, AUSTRALIA, OCTOBER 7th, 2023. Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price meets NO campaigners for the voice to parliament at a polling booth in Hobart CBD.Picture: Linda Higginson

Win for No campaign will be a proud moment for Australia

If the No vote prevails it will be a rejection of race politics and a triumph of a genuine grassroots campaign against the powerful, wealthy elite.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 28 2023. Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese attends The West Says Yes event at The Factory Theatre in Marrickville, in support of the indigenous voice to parliament. PIC SHOWS veteran journalist Ray Martin giving a speech. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Max Mason-Hubers

Why should we listen to arrogant celebs telling us how to vote?

It’s clear many of the celebrities advocating for the race-based referendum are ignorant of the details and they’re not helping their cause by calling No voters “dinosaurs and dickheads”.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 29, 2023: Indigenous leader Noel Pearson speaks during the Yes launch at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

Yes camp’s five own goals on Voice

Advocates for the race-based referendum are determined to inject racial politics into our founding document. These are some of their most recent blunders and dodgy tactics.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. SEPTEMBER 14, 2023: Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price addresses the National Press Club in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Dignified voice of truth-teller Price rises above race-baiting Langton

More than any other leader, Jacinta Price has explained why the Voice is wrong in principle and dangerous if put in practice. In the face of threats, abuse and vitriol, she has remained dignified.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Newswire Photos -MAY 02 2023: Qantas Group Chairman Richard Goyder, CEO designate and Chief Financial Officer Vanessa Hudson, CEO Alan Joyce address the media on the CEO succession plan announced today during a press conference at Qantas HQ in Sydney. Picture: NCA Newswire / Gaye Gerard

It’s time Qantas chairman fell on his sword

If Qantas chairman Richard Goyder’s position was vulnerable before, after losing an appeal in the High Court over the sacking of 1700 workers, it’s increasingly untenable.

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2022 AFL Grand Final at the MCG between Geelong Cats and Sydney Swans. final siren Picture: Jason Edwards

AFL has read the room in opting out of pro-Voice activism

The AFL has a history of relentlessly leftist political activism so you know the ‘yes’ Voice case is circling the drain when it decides not to campaign on its biggest day.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 14 2023: Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, gives a speech at the launch of the Qantas 'Yes' Campaign in Sydney. Picture: NCA Newswire / Gaye Gerard

Goodbye and good riddance, Alan Joyce

Time’s up for Alan Joyce, who took Qantas from the “spirit of Australia” to an underperforming, activist airline that shoved toxic race politics down passengers’ throats.

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Premier Peter Malinauskas , Education Minister Blair Boyer and Royal Commissioner and former Prime Minister Julia Gillard release of the final report of the royal commission into Early Childhood Education and Care. 27th August 2023. Picture: Brett Hartwig

Trans lobby’s power is ‘disproportionate’

The power of the increasingly intolerant and extremist trans lobby is evident in the way politicians, bureaucrats and celebrities bend to its ideology.

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