Articles by Heather du Plessis-Allan
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Opinion
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Here's what's so disappointing about the energy announcement
Wednesday, 1 October 2025, 7:37pmIf you were looking forward to today to learn how the Government would rescue the country from the energy crisis we face,...
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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Winston Peters made the brave choice this weekend
Monday, 29 September 2025, 7:19pmCan I just come to the defence of Winston Peters for a minute? Winston has been labelled a coward for the position that he...
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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: The pressure's on the RBNZ to fix the economy - fast
Thursday, 18 September 2025, 7:33pmWell, I think it's fair to say that the GDP print has come in at something of a shock. The Reserve Bank was picking a contraction...
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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Stop letting the Springboks get into your head
Friday, 5 September 2025, 7:22pmCan you please stop letting the Springboks get into your head? Cause that is clearly what they're up to. That's why Rassie...
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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Who knows what World Rugby can do?
Thursday, 28 August 2025, 7:35pmWell it's fair to say World Rugby's copping it today, even more so than yesterday. This is following the death of Shane Christie,...
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Opinion
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Taking in the impact of John Barnett's death
Wednesday, 27 August 2025, 7:23pmIf I'm honest with you, the passing of John Barnett on Sunday has actually hit our house quite hard over the last three days...
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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Was Kiwibank's Jarrod Kerr proven right?
Wednesday, 20 August 2025, 7:35pmThe longer that this economic funk that we find ourselves in goes on, the more that Jarrod Kerr of Kiwibank is being proven...
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Opinion
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Why aren't these leaders willing to properly help Zelenskyy?
Monday, 18 August 2025, 7:17pmSo if anything, tonight's meeting at the White House is actually more important than Saturday's meeting was in Alaska - because...
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Opinion
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: How will RUCs change our driving behaviours?
Wednesday, 6 August 2025, 7:36pmSo the Government just announced what they’re calling the biggest change to road funding in 50 years. Once these changes...
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Opinion
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Our kids' education is too important to muck around
Monday, 4 August 2025, 7:31pmYou can't accuse Erica Stanford of mucking around, can you? NCEA is gone. Marks out of 100 are back, grades from A to E are...
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Opinion
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Is it really the Government's fault the gang numbers cracked the 10,000 mark?
Wednesday, 30 July 2025, 7:38pmYou know that story about the gang numbers cracking the 10,000 mark? That's classic gotcha politics, isn't it? It doesn't...
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Opinion
Heather du Plessis-Allan: The Blues should leave Eden Park
Tuesday, 15 July 2025, 9:59amIt's probably sensible, don’t you think, for the Blues to consider leaving Eden Park for Mt Smart? It’s not going to fix...
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Opinion
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Do we need the Government to help fund Wegovy?
Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 5:04pmFrom today, Wegovy is available on our shelves so you can get skinny like Oprah, if you want. But it'll cost you - $500 per...
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Opinion
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Don't feel sorry for Iran here
Monday, 23 June 2025, 8:04pmWell, US certainly ramped things up over the weekend, didn't it? And if you feel like this is an incredibly serious situation...
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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Scrapping the census was long overdue
Wednesday, 18 June 2025, 3:54pmYou know what I’m not going to miss? The census. If there anything that showed how bad Governments can be at embracing technology,...
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Opinion
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: The polls revealed how people felt about the pay equity saga
Wednesday, 4 June 2025, 6:02pmWe've had a case of conflicting polls over the last twenty-four hours, with two completely different Governments predicted. But...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Don't touch my pension
Friday, 23 May 2025, 7:19pmLet's talk about this business with the pension age. Chris Luxon has said today twice that he wants the pension age to go...
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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: The Tonkin + Taylor saga shows free speech cuts both ways
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 5:22pmWas Tonkin + Taylor right to apologise to Winston Peters for the employee heckling him? Of course they were! They don't want...
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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Grownups don't need to use social media
Monday, 19 May 2025, 7:40pmI've got a life tip for you - Grownups should not post their opinions on social media. Case in point, Gary Lineker. Now,...
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Opinion
Heather du Plessis-Allan: In defence of instant coffee
Friday, 16 May 2025, 6:46pmI just want to be clear, I don't want to start a disagreement between shows here on Newstalk ZB, but I did listen to Mike...
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Opinion
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: There's a lot of remarkable things about yesterday's c-word column
Monday, 12 May 2025, 8:02pmThere are a lot of remarkable things about that C-word column yesterday, and one of them is that it is still up online, and...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: NZR's financial problems are its own fault
Friday, 9 May 2025, 6:27pmIf you are at all interested in understanding what's going wrong at rugby headquarters in Wellington, can I recommend that...
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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Will the pay equity claim shake-up save us money?
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 7:29pmThat decision today to stop all those pay equity claims is ballsy - I mean, you know, ballsy is good - and I think I lean...
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Opinion
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: I don't think voters are rejecting Trumpism
Monday, 5 May 2025, 5:03pmAfter Albo’s massive win across the ditch on Saturday, I can see a lot of commentators are tempted to blame it on Trumpism...
