Articles by Heather du Plessis-Allan
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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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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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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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Opinion
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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Opinion
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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Opinion
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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Opinion
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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Opinion
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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Opinion
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...
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Opinion
Heather du Plessis-Allan: Can Nicola Willis pull off her no new money budget?
Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 4:31pmIf Nicola Willis can pull this Budget off, it'll be impressive, because she has written a budget, by the looks of things,...
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Opinion
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: National needs to stop this ACC business before it loses votes
Thursday, 24 April 2025, 7:21pmNow, listen, I hope that this ACC business is a Scott Simpson problem and not a National problem, but I'm starting to get...
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Opinion
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Pope Francis was a disappointing Pope
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 11:21amFirst of all, can I just say to all Catholics, condolences, obviously, over the passing of the Pope. It's a big moment for...
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Opinion
Heather du Plessis-Allan: Luxon has made the right call re Waitangi
Friday, 20 December 2024, 9:55amChristopher Luxon’s made the right call not going to Waitangi next year. He's probably going to cop it from the press gallery...
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Opinion
Heather du Plessis-Allan: Councils forced the Govt to bring out the big stick
Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 9:59amEven people who think councils do a fantastic job must by now understand why the Government is going to have to pass law...
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Opinion
Heather du Plessis-Allan: My politician of the year
Monday, 16 December 2024, 10:14amAt this time of year it’s traditional for political commentators to pick their politician of the year. And interestingly,...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: I'm with NZ Post - Stop delivering to letterboxes
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 10:29amIt looks like NZ Post might finally pull a trigger they haven’t pulled yet and stop delivering mail to some letterboxes. It's...
