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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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More people killed in “peaceful protests” in the U.S.

There’ll be no marches, and not much media coverage, for the victims of the violent protests, riots and looting across the U.S.

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FILE - In this Monday, June 1, 2020 file photo, a woman wearing a mask due to coronavirus concerns, looks at a smashed storefront window in Boston's Downtown Crossing. The destruction caused by vandals and looters in cities across the country, who struck as demonstrators took to the streets in reaction to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, has devastated small businesses already reeling from the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

How Trump’s haters handed him a golden opportunity

One of Trump’s greatest assets is being blessed with deeply stupid enemies. After days of wild rioting egged on by the Left, the President’s haters have handed him an opportunity to restore order, writes Rita Panahi.

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Tweets of the day

Lawless mayhem has taken hold from Minneapolis to Atlanta as protesters resort to violence, looting and arson in reaction to police brutality.

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TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn upon his return to the White House in Washington, DC on May 27, 2020. - SpaceX's landmark launch to the International Space Station -- the first crewed mission to blast off from US soil in almost a decade -- was scrubbed today due to bad weather. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)

Time for Twitter to be treated like a real publisher

While Twitter cracks down on US President Trump, it allows the Iranian regime to spew its lies and fails to fact-check Chinese government propagandists who are allowed tweet crazy COVID-19 conspiracy theories, writes Rita Panahi.

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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - MAY 25: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks at a press conference on May 25, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. Cabinet will meet today to begin discussions on easing level 2 restrictions to include increasing the maximum number of people that can gather. New Zealand continues to record low new case numbers with just one new COVID-19 case reported last week. (Photo by Ross Giblin - Pool/Getty Images)

Sorry Jacinda, Taiwan is the real virus success story

While much of the media fawn over New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s economy-destroying restrictions they ignore the greatest coronavirus success story in the world which has been spearheaded by a remarkable woman in Taiwan, writes Rita Panahi.

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People relax in marked circles for proper social distancing at Domino Park in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn during the current coronavirus outbreak, Sunday, May 17, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Flawed coronavirus modelling fuelled alarmist fire

Much of the modelling behind the coronavirus lockdowns has proved to be so absurdly wrong that it’s been labelled “worthless”, but it’s been swallowed hook, line and sinker by the alarmist media, writes Rita Panahi.

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech at the opening of the 73rd World Health Assembly via video link in Beijing, Monday, May 18, 2020. China on Monday announced it will give $2 billion to the fight against the coronavirus. As nations carved out a new normal amid the pandemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the World Health Organization's annual meeting Monday that the funds would be paid out over two years to help respond to COVID-19, which has already killed hundreds of thousands and devastated national economies. (Li Xueren/Xinhua via AP)

No better time than now to stand up to China’s bullying

China has shifted its attention from terrorising its own citizens to punishing any nation that dares stand up to it. And if dare not hold the line, and call out this communist regime’s cover-ups, then we can kiss goodbye the notion of national sovereignty, writes Rita Panahi.

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