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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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Tucker Carlson on Trump’s Independence Day speech

Tucker Carlson on President Donald Trump’s Independence Day speech and the media’s gross misrepresentation of it.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 07, 2020: Victorian Premier Dan Andrews announces the lockdown of Metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire for 6 weeks due to a spike in the cases of the coronavirus. Picture : NCA NewsWire / Ian Currie

Melburnians must now pay for Dan’s failures

Millions of Melburnians are now paying a heavy price for the gross incompetence of Daniel Andrews’ government — but the Premier is busy shifting blame to everyone but himself, writes Rita Panahi.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 02: Police check the identification of members of the public at a pop up road block in Broadmeadows to ensure they have legitimate reasons for leaving one on the hotspots, July 02, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Lockdowns across Melbourne have come into effect for residents of suburbs identified as COVID-19 hotspots following a spike in new coronavirus cases through community transmission. From midnight Wednesday 1 July, residents of 10 postcodes will only be able to leave home have for exercise or work, to buy essential items including food or to access childcare and healthcare. Businesses and facilities in these lockdown areas will also be restricted and cafes and restaurants can only open for take-away and delivery. The restrictions will remain in place until at least 29 July. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

Refusing a virus test is selfish but the law is on their side

The Andrews Government’s mishandling of coronavirus has condemned Victorians to be second-class citizens in their own country. But while it’s the height of selfishness it appears those flouting tests have the human rights charter on their side, writes Rita Panahi.

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Medical workers staff a drive-through Covid-19 testing site located in a shopping centre carpark in Melbourne on June 23, 2020. - Australians were warned on June 22 to avoid travelling to Melbourne, as the country's second biggest city tightened coronavirus restrictions amid fears of a second wave of the epidemic. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)

It’s no wonder Victoria has become a laughing stock

Victoria has become the butt of jokes across the nation, first for our illogical coronavirus restrictions and now we’re being ridiculed for a spike in infections. It’s no wonder there is increasing incidence of country Victorians distancing themselves from the antics of Melburnians, writes Rita Panahi.

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Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement Patrisse Cullors poses for a photo with students at Cabramatta High School in Cabramatta, Sydney, Monday, Oct. 30, 2017. The school is hosting the 2017 Sydney Peace Prize winners, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Oal Tometi. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett)

Radical reality behind Black Lives Matter movement ignored

We’ve seen celebrities, sportsmen and politicians taking a knee in the name of Black Lives Matter, yet these virtue signallers seem to have done no research on the extreme and downright dangerous agendas this movement supports, writes Rita Panahi.

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QANTAS plane departing from Brisbane Airport Pictures David Clark Photography

Flight ban makes us captives on a prison island

While protesters take to the streets and break every social-distancing rule, law abiding Australians continue to be guilted into submission with livelihood-destroying restrictions, writes Rita Panahi.

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A supplied image obtained on Thursday, June 18, 2020, of Solomone Taufeulungaki, 15, was killed outside Brimbank Shopping Centre in Deer Park on Tuesday afternoon after he was allegedly approached by a group of eight to 10 youths wielding knives. (AAP Image/Supplied) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Deadly gang hatred needs real response

Race-obsessed activists are disinterested in the gang violence afflicting our communities, but it seems if the perpetrator is not white, the victim does not matter, writes Rita Panahi.

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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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BLM are radical neo-Marxists

The Black Lives Matter movement is not only anti-police, anti-white, anti-capitalist but also proudly neo-Marxist.

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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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