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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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This is what happens when you vote Greens

So much of what passes for inclusion nowadays is nothing more than vacuous attention-seeking, victim playing and narcissistic emoting.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA- NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 25, 2021: Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews holds a press conference at a work site in Ascot Vale marking the start of the Big Housing Build. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Sarah Matray

Andrews cruelly holding businesses hostage

Every single day of unnecessary restrictions is a heavy burden for battered Victorian businesses, so why do we need to wait until Friday for an announcement?

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 17: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews speaks to the media on February 17, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. Victoria's stage 4 lockdown which has been in place for the last 5 days will end at 11:59pm tonight after no additional COVID-19 cases were recorded in the last 24 hours. From midnight, masks will be mandatory indoors and outdoors where social distancing isn't possible, household gatherings will be limited to 5 and outside gatherings are limited to 20. School will resume from Thursday, and weddings and funerals can go ahead subject to capacity and density rules. Hospitality will be able to resume. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

Andrews must answer questions — and not just on Crown

The Coate inquiry uncritically accepted the testimony of bureaucrats and politicians, but in NSW, Bergin was forensic in uncovering the truth.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 21: Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates victory in his MenÃ¢â¬â¢s Singles Final match against Daniil Medvedev of Russia during day 14 of the 2021 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on February 21, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Matt King/Getty Images)

Tennis fans won’t cop political posturing

Tennis boos were a backlash to the moral platitudes being heaped on our government’s disastrous pandemic policy, not the vaccine.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 16, 2021: Victoria's Quarantine Hotel Commissioner Emma Cassar at the daily COVID press conference at Treasury in Melbourne. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

Just a matter of time until Cassar is Dan’s next scapegoat

Dan Andrews is nimble at finding convenient scapegoats when the going gets tough. So will he make Emma Cassar the next Jenny Mikakos?

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos December 2 2020: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews puts on a mask after speaking at a press conference in Mont Albert on Wednesday morning. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Geraghty

Premier’s hysteria does not match facts

When lockdown lifts, the mandatory mask mandate may remain. But why should Victorians be muzzled in the summer heat?

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Regional Vic lockdown bordering on insane

It is absurd to subject Victorians in areas that have not had a COVID case in months to draconian lockdown measures that cripple their society and economy.

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