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Rita Panahi
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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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews arrives to speak to media ahead of a sitting of the Parliament of Victoria at Parliament House in Melbourne, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING

Dan’s decade in charge of toxic state Labor

It is entirely possible that Teflon Dan will again escape unscathed but the Victorian Government is in disgrace with three ministers stepping down as the public gets a glimpse of Labor’s ugly underbelly, writes Rita Panahi.

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Actors and comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams in series 3 of TV show 'Little Britain'.

How latest cultural purge is rewriting history

With comedian Chris Lilley’s work the latest to be cancelled it is time the mainstream in the west took a stand against the Orwellian thought police who want to dictate what we choose to listen to, read or watch, writes Rita Panahi.

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FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2018 file photo, author J.K. Rowling poses for photographers upon her arrival at the premiere of the film 'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald', in London. JK Rowling is publishing a new story called “The Ickabog,” which will be free to read online to help entertain children and families stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic. The “Harry Potter” author said Tuesday May 26, 2020, that she wrote the fairy tale for her children as a bedtime story over a decade ago. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

Rowling another victim of Left’s hate mob mentality

A regular person not afflicted with the mind disease that is identity politics would see nothing hateful in author JK Rowling’s latest posts. Yet the Left will have you believe she is “a bigot” for simply not wanting to erase womanhood, writes Rita Panahi.

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BLM protests are not peaceful

BLM protests are not peaceful

If Australians are going to march under the banner of the US Black Lives Matter movement then they better familiarise themselves with a group whose founders push a toxic, divisive brand of race politics.

Original URL: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/journalists/rita-panahi/page/52