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OPA LOCKA, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 01: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during his campaign event at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on November 1, 2020 in Opa Locka, Florida. President Trump continues to campaign against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leading up to the November 3rd Election Day.   Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Why I was wrong about Trump

In 2016 I didn’t think Donald Trump was a real conservative, up to the job or had a realistic chance of winning, but I’ve been proven wrong, writes Rita Panahi.

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TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he walks to Marine One prior to departure from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, October 2, 2020, as he heads to Walter Reed Military Medical Center, after testing positive for Covid-19. - President Donald Trump will spend the coming days in a military hospital just outside Washington to undergo treatment for the coronavirus, but will continue to work, the White House said Friday (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Media misses the mark on COVID reality in US

If you believed most media reporting you’d think the US COVID response was the worst in the world and it’s all down to Donald Trump. But blaming him for what happened in the worst-affected states is like blaming Scott Morrison for what happened in Victoria, writes Rita Panahi.

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Andrew Crisp speaks to the media following his appointment as Victoria's news Emergency Management Commissioner during a press conference at Parliament House in Melbourne, Wednesday, August 8, 2018. Assistant police commissioner Andrew Crisp takes his new role a day after his predecessor Craig Lapsley resigned. (AAP Image/Stefan Postles) NO ARCHIVING

How dumb do these boffins think we are?

As if amnesiac bureaucrats weren’t enough, Andrew Crisp retracting what little evidence he gave at the hotel inquiry is the cherry on top of a useless and deeply troubling situation, writes Rita Panahi.

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