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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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Noel Pearson, Qld Media Club: CAPE York voices on the voice, South Brisbane. Picture: Liam Kidston

Vile Left’s true colours exposed in Voice debate

The events of the past 48 hours represent a callous and cruel new low even by the Australian Left’s deplorably low standards.

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27/04/2016: Indigenous lawyer Teela Reid, who works for Supreme Court Justice Lucy McCallum and has written an essay in a major new collection about the indigenous constitutional recognition process. Photo: Brad Hunter/The Australian

Five reasons you should vote No to Voice

In the past week alone we’ve seen multiple examples highlighting the racial division and privilege the Yes camp wants enshrined in the Constitution.

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Don’t feel sorry for AFL players over nude pics leak

We know footy players are young, dumb and horny but is it really too much to limit one’s dick-pic sharing activity to people you actually know and trust?

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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 29: Anti-affirmative action activists with the Asian American Coalition for Education protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court Building on June 29, 2023 in Washington, DC. In a 6-3 vote, Supreme Court Justices ruled that race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are unconstitutional, setting precedent for affirmative action in other universities and colleges. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Affirmative action ruling in US exposes left’s racist underbelly

The unseemly reaction to the US Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action perfectly highlights the bigotry of low expectations the left holds for people of colour.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 30TH, 2023: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, is in Melbourne today, visiting the Merri Community Child Care and Kindergarten. Picture : NCA NewsWire / Nicki Connolly

Albo presses ahead with unapologetically hard left agenda

From the moment he took office, Anthony Albanese has pressed ahead with an agenda that is not only anti-free speech but will enshrine racial privilege in the nation’s Constitution.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. JUNE 22, 2023: Land Council Chairs along with The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the unveiling of the Barunga Voice Declaration at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Pro-Voice propaganda in David and Goliath battle

The cashed-up Yes campaign has started playing dirty and it is only going to get worse as we approach the referendum.

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Woke healthcare a new step in New Zealand’s new-age apartheid

New Zealand medical professionals being advised to consider ethnicities when determining if someone will receive priority care is racism, plain and simple.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Newswire Photos June 13, 2023: Victorian premier Daniel Andrews during a press conference at Footscray Primary School. Picture NCA NewsWire / Aaron Francis

Denyer bill defeat proves ‘Teflon Dan’ has total control

Only a uniquely dominant politician would effectively side with a serial killer instead of the victim’s families. Victoria’s Premier now clearly sees himself as bulletproof.

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A general view at The Hangar, the High Performance Centre of the Essendon Football Club in Melbourne, Monday, June 22, 2020. Essendon's Conor McKenna became the first AFL player to test positive for COVID-19. (AAP Image/Scott Barbour) NO ARCHIVING

Idiotic Bombers review just the beginning of woke overhaul

We can mock the unbridled idiocy of Essendon wasting resources considering whether to ditch its historic logo but the vacuous Leftist dogma will not end there.

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Bowing to the climate gods leaves us in the cold

Political leaders have been hyperfocused on emission targets and failed to prioritise cheap, reliable energy, which is plunging Australians into energy poverty.

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