The days when air travel was a glamorous affair may be long gone but today’s regular flyers fear coronavirus less than being seated next to an uncouth, discourteous oaf. Here are the seven cardinal rules of airline etiquette, writes Rita Panahi.
Australia can’t turn a blind eye to the reality of forced marriage and if we don’t step up to protect these young women and girls, we can’t call ourselves a civilised country, writes Rita Panahi.
Hollywood celebrities can’t seem to get that the public doesn’t take kindly to lectures from a pack of spoiled hypocrites telling us how to live our lives while refusing to make a single sacrifice for the causes they champion, writes Rita Panahi.
Between a failed impeachment bid and a petty, speech-ripping stunt, the blundering Democrats are doing all they can to help get Donald Trump re-elected, writes Rita Panahi.
The usual suspects have emerged to accuse Australia of racism over its response to the coronavirus epidemic. But there’s nothing racist in being cautious, writes Rita Panahi.
Contrary to fake news, the entire continent of Australia isn’t on fire. And as tourists axe their trips to untouched areas, the hysteria needs to calm down so the world will know we’re still open for business, writes Rita Panahi.
Margaret Court’s extraordinary sporting feats make her arguably Australia’s greatest ever female athlete and inarguably a tennis legend.
Yet another Australian of the Year has used the occasion to immediately scold the nation. And while Dr James Muecke is well intentioned, his terrible plan to introduce a tax on sugar simply won’t work, writes Rita Panahi.
Tennis Australia is more proud of the opening of gender neutral toilets than it is of tennis legend Margaret Court. Which is painfully hypocritical for an organisation that claims it is all for “diversity and inclusion”, writes Rita Panahi.
The virtue signalling Duke and Duchess of Sussex misread the room and have settled for a deal that is starkly different to what they wanted, writes Rita Panahi.
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