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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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Public servants putting city’s recovery in jeopardy

After scoring generous pay rises and bonuses during COVID, public servants are now jeopardising Victoria’s recovery by not returning to offices.

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Row of private high school students work on assignment in class. They are writing or using laptops or digital tablets. They are concentrating as they study. They are wearing school uniforms.

New curriculum will teach kids to hate Australia

Australia’s new proposed national curriculum will produce a generation of poorly informed student activists who’ve been taught to hate their own country.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA NewsWire Photos MARCH 17 2021: Portrait of Australian politician Nicole Flint in her office in Parliament House, Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Gender quotas a misguided attempt at ‘equity’

The simple, undeniable truth is that gender quotas undermine women who get to the top on merit.

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An man holds the national flag of China after a pro-Beijing activist group gathered outside the British Consulate-General to protest against the use of the British National (Overseas) passport in Hong Kong on February 1, 2021, as a new visa scheme offering millions of Hong Kongers a pathway to British citizenship went live the day before. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)

We should be refuge for those fleeing China’s tyranny

With China continuing to be a threat to the free world, Australia is morally obliged to provide asylum to Hong Kongers genuinely fleeing tyranny.

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High school students walking to their next class.

Racist, regressive lunacy polluting our schools

Parents must take a stand against the politicisation of Victoria’s curriculum or they can expect their children to be taught more divisive, regressive lunacy.

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HONG KONG, CHINA - APRIL 16: A pro-China supporter waves a Chinese flag outside the West Kowloon Magistrates Courts to celebrate the sentencing of the pro-democracy activists on trial on April 16, 2021 in Hong Kong, China. Seven prominent democratic figures, including Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, former lawmaker and barrister Martin Lee and Margaret Ng, were convicted of unauthorized assembly in relation to a peaceful protest on August 18, 2019. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

China will learn to respect Australia’s strength

China seizes on the weakness of foreign countries and their internal political divisions to further drive its agenda.

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Govt’s “confusing” education campaign, , The Morrison Government's new consent education campaign for schools features a bizarre video of a woman smearing a man’s face with a milkshake.

Coalition losing their conservative credentials

Conservatives shouldn’t turn into what they have long mocked. If you want to be part of the hysterical PC police, join the Greens or the Labor Party.

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Minister for Defence Peter Dutton speaks with military personnel at Lavarack Barracks in Townsville on Thursday night, April 8, 2020. , , Picture: Max Bree

Dutton rejects collective guilt in ADF medals ruling

By refusing to strip soldiers of medals, Peter Dutton shows he has the backbone to do what’s right, not just what’s politically expedient.

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Marriage Equality Ambassadors Magda Szubanski,on the Lawns of Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Ch 9’s Magda interview a monumental own goal

Channel 9’s attempt at damage control only poured fuel on the fire and further exposed Madga Szubanski’s far Left views.

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Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison (R) and his wife Jenny Morrison attend a special prayer service to commemorate the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at St Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney on April 11, 2021. (Photo by Bianca DE MARCHI / POOL / AFP)

Left’s filthy Jenny Morrison attacks a double standard

Conservative women like Jenny Morrison rarely get the same support and protection as women of the Left.

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