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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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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 14 2023: Former Footballer Adam Goodes, attends the launch of the Qantas 'Yes' Campaign in Sydney. Picture: NCA Newswire / Gaye Gerard

ABC issues correction over Goodes’ flora and fauna lie

Even in the middle of the Voice debate, activists including ex Australian of the Year Adam Goodes are uttering untruths about Indigenous people once being covered by a “flora and fauna act”.

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Australian Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers. Picture: Sky News

AEC pro-Voice bias threatens integrity of referendum

The AEC’s skewing of the Voice referendum by declaring that a tick will count as a ‘yes’ vote but a cross will not count as a ‘no’ vote is a step too far.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. AUGUST 7, 2023: Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price addresses the media at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Brave Senator won’t be silenced by demented abuse

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has maintained a quiet but fierce dignity as she withstands the most dreadful vitriol and threats to fight for what’s right.

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

Qantas’ idiocy on Voice just won’t fly

The airline’s latest divisive move to support the race-based referendum shows the national carrier is a shell of its former glory.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. AUGUST 7, 2023: Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Dutton may lead us out of self-harming energy madness

Australia is an energy-rich nation that has burdened its citizens with high energy costs, but if Peter Dutton can hold his nerve and deliver a nuclear policy he’ll go a long way to securing government.

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Voice debate reveals Libs can win by standing up for their values

An important lesson conservatives can learn from the Voice debate is whatever the battle, they’re on solid ground when they stand up for core principles instead of trying to appease their ideological opponents.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA , NewsWire Photos. MARCH 16TH 2023 Bruce Lehrmann walks out of the supreme court in Sydney . Picture: NCA NewsWire/ Flavio Brancaleone

Lehrmann case exposes disturbing reality

It’s now evident that it wasn’t just members of the media and politicians behaving improperly but also the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. JULY 230, 2023: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese makes a statement on the helicopter incident during Exercise Talisman Sabre at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Albo desperate to rewrite Voice campaign

He was the man who unequivocally pledged to deliver a treaty but as the polls turn it would seem Anthony Albanese is eager to rewrite history.

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MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 27, 2023: Daniel Andrews At a press conference in the gardens of parliament. The newly elected First People's Assembly is in parliament gardens. Picture: Herald Sun / Jason Edwards for NCA Newswire

Andrews escapes watchdog’s pitiful bite

The latest corruption findings reveal IBAC as a toothless tiger and give the Premier the chance to further increase his power base.

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COMPOSITE 16:9 - Australia's four big banks Commonwealth, Westpac, NAB, ANZ. Picture: NCA Newswire

Banks must withdraw from divisive political posturing

Aussie banks have already weighed in on issues such as trans activism and we should be wary if they follow the sinister escalation in the UK.

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