Articles by Heather du Plessis-Allan
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Opinion
Heather du Plessis-Allan: Erica Stanford is this Govt's MVP
Thursday, 17 July 2025, 10:49amI've said it before, and I'll say it again: Erica Stanford is this Government's MVP. Once again, she is taking an inexplicably...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: David Seymour and the UN letter
Wednesday, 16 July 2025, 10:13amI’m as interested as anyone on this mystery about whether David Seymour is in trouble over the letter he sent to the UN. Whether...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: My winner of the week
Friday, 11 July 2025, 11:00amWinner of the week has got to be NZ First. In the latest Taxpayer's Union Curia poll, they are the third biggest party now,...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Stop letting tech disrupt sport
Thursday, 10 July 2025, 11:09amHasn’t the AI and Wimbledon drama taught us exactly the same lesson we keep learning with technology and sport: it’s great...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: What Chris Hipkins is doing to the Covid Inquiry
Wednesday, 9 July 2025, 10:44amLet me tell you what Chris Hopkins is busy doing to the Covid Inquiry. Let me tell you, when he says that the Covid Inquiry...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Kids shouldn't be exempt from citizen's arrests
Tuesday, 8 July 2025, 10:00amIf you listen to parenting experts, you'll hear the same thing time and time again about raising kids properly. They need...
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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Speed is of the essence for the Air India crash investigators
Saturday, 14 June 2025, 8:40amLet me tell you about my colleague Kylie's reaction to that Air India plane crash last night. She was in bed. She was playing...
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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Why is it so hard to do the obvious thing?
Saturday, 7 June 2025, 8:18amI've been thinking overnight about the news yesterday that a second Christchurch school has decided to put the walls back...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Seymour and Peters are the right men for the job
Friday, 30 May 2025, 7:00pmThis weekend marks the last day of Winnie and the first day of David Seymour as the Deputy Prime Minister. Now, mostly I...
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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: New Zealand is duller without Sir Bob Jones
Friday, 2 May 2025, 4:32pmVery sad news this afternoon that Bob Jones has passed away. It's not altogether a surprise – he was getting on in age,...
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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Simeon Brown needs to convince more than just voters
Thursday, 17 April 2025, 6:56pmI've got a lot of time for Simeon Brown - he's a very good politician, but I reckon he might want to take the advice of Chris...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: It's time for a hard crackdown on bad dog owners
Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 12:37pmI am of the view that it is time for authorities to start cracking down really hard on bad dog owners. When I was on maternity...
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Best of 2024: Heather du Plessis-Allan - Let's put Donald Trump's win into perspective
Friday, 20 December 2024, 11:47amLet me tell you, it was absolutely no surprise to me to see my Facebook friends going crazy over Trump winning the election...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: The judge who yelled at Winston should lose her job
Thursday, 19 December 2024, 10:14amOne of the most surprising things about that judge allegedly yelling at Winston Peters in the Northern Club is that she is...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: The Government aren't fixing our economic mess
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 9:37amWe knew the Government books were going to be bad, but not this bad. No way we’re getting to the surplus we expected in...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: PNG in the NRL is just politics
Friday, 13 December 2024, 10:25amIt looks like we were never really in with a chance to get a second team alongside the warriors in the NRL, were we? Because...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: The ferry "announcement" is embarrassing
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 9:48amI think we can all have a guess at why the Government announced the ferry decision two weeks before Christmas. Because this...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: We shouldn't get rid of the boot camps
Monday, 9 December 2024, 9:08amI do not buy the argument, which seems to have taken hold, that the boot camps trial has to be shut down immediately because...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Supreme Court decision is the right one
Friday, 6 December 2024, 8:31pmThe judiciary think that they are the ones writing laws, and they can just ignore what parliament wants, and they can call...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan on the Government's bootcamps making headlines
Friday, 6 December 2024, 8:16pmIf you're looking at the headlines about the boot camp trial today - these kids running away and one of them dying in a car...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Damien O'Connor must apologise
Thursday, 3 October 2024, 9:37amLabour’s going to have to sort itself out over this Middle East situation. This is about Damien O'Connor's tweet. I was...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: The smaller rugby ball for women is already controversial
Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 5:24pmGuess what: the smaller ruby ball for women is already controversial. I was telling you about this last week because World...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Air New Zealand are milking kiwis
Friday, 25 August 2023, 5:14pmLet's be brutal about what we all suspect is going on with Air NZ. And that is that Air NZ managed to turn its business around yesterday...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: We need more Police patrolling out cities CBDs
Friday, 4 August 2023, 4:37pmDoesn't the shooting in Auckland overnight illustrate to you that the Police Ministers’ idea of getting volunteers to do...
