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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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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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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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