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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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So-called ‘experts’ indulging in outrageous scaremongering

In an effort to stay in the limelight a number of dial-a-quote experts are indulging in outrageous scaremongering and doomsayer predictions.

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Lack of transparency on Covid deaths fuels mistrust

Victorians deserve to be treated like adults and furnished with all the facts on Covid deaths, not just ones that fit a particular narrative.

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Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates after winning a point against USA's Jenson Brooksby during their 2021 US Open Tennis tournament men's singles fourth round match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on September 6, 2021. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP)

Boneheaded Dan could cost us major events

Victoria has long prided itself on being the home of major events but if we keep demanding vaccine passports it could cost us dearly.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 26: Fiona Patten of the Reason Party speaks to the media outside Parliament on October 26, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. The Victorian government will today present a bill for new pandemic laws, to replace the current state of emergency powers when they expire on December 15. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

Dan’s useful idiots betray Victoria

The last thing we need is for Dan Andrews to have more power, but given the calibre of the crossbench that’s precisely what we’re likely to get.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 22: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews speaks to the media at the daily press conference on October 22, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. Lockdown restrictions have lifted in Melbourne after Victoria achieved its target of having 70 per cent of the eligible population fully vaccinated against COVID-19. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

Dan, you’re not our daddy

There’s nothing more sickening, paternalistic and dishonest than the “we did it, Victoria” rhetoric when it comes from Daniel Andrews.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 21: A VIP StarNETWORK medical staff member prepares a Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine at a #VAXTOSCHOOL pop-up site at Life of Hope Center on October 21, 2021 in New York City. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced yesterday the opening of 25 new coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination pop-up sites in an initiative to help increase vaccination rates among school-aged New Yorkers. The Department of Health is working alongside local county health departments, community-based organizations, and healthcare centers to install these sites in different regions of the state. According to the state COVID-19 vaccine tracker, since October 18, 62 percent of 12 to 15-year-olds and 72 percent of 16 to 25-year-olds have received at least one coronavirus vaccine dose. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Protect yourself and mind your business

NSW will give jabbed and unjabbed equal freedoms on December 1, but Dan Andrews wants to maintain vaccine passports well into 2022.

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A multi-ethnic group of four children, 5 to 7 years old, playing together on a playground during school recess. They are sitting side by side on two slides, looking at the camera. They are all wearing masks, back to school during the COVID-19 pandemic, trying to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Our children must be unmasked

Forcing young kids to wear masks at school is a hysterical anti-science stance opposed by renowned experts — and it must be ditched.

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Adults enabling painfully woke activists

You can’t be mad at kids for being painfully ignorant, history-erasing activists when adults are enabling their ill-considered inanity.

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Outdoor mask madness must be ditched

There is no science to back outdoor mask mandates and you can bet Dan Andrews will drop when polls say it’s unpopular.

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Teachers’ strike threat a slap in the face to families

The Australian Education Union’s pay battle is an insult to families who have struggled with home schooling and watched their financial security be destroyed.

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