Articles by Heather du Plessis-Allan
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Opinion
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...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Razor is exactly what the All Blacks need
Friday, 28 July 2023, 4:43pmFirst thing I thought when I saw the ad that Scott Robertson took out in the paper today thanking fans was that Razor is...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Govt spending on expired rat tests is 'out of the gate'
Friday, 7 July 2023, 4:42pmThere has been so much money wasted by the Government in the last six years that it really takes something quite profligate...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Vindication for Pike River families
Friday, 23 June 2023, 4:19pmOnce again, the Pike River families have been utterly vindicated in their battle to get a proper police investigation into...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Puhoi to Warkworth highway opens
Friday, 16 June 2023, 4:29pmWell, very good news today that the Puhoi to Warkworth highway has finally officially been opened. Only about a year and...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: I think Wayne Brown has already won
Friday, 9 June 2023, 5:52pmFor all Wayne Brown’s faults, and there are many, you have got to be impressed with what he’s managed to do in eight months...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Labour might've lost its last best hope
Friday, 26 May 2023, 6:32pmI'm surprised that voters don’t really seem to like Chris Hipkins that much. We've spent quite a bit of time discussing Chris Luxon’s poor...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Grant has opened the money hose
Friday, 19 May 2023, 5:10pmLock it in; it looks like a very good chance that your mortgage rate is going up, because Grant opened the money hose too...
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Heather Du Plessis-Allan: The Tenancy Tribunal overrides contracts in favour of tenants
Friday, 12 May 2023, 4:42pmYou want a perfect example of the kind of rules that people think are good for tenants, but actually end up backfiring on...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: How much more are we going to tolerate?
Friday, 28 April 2023, 4:31pmHow much more of these hand gluing protests in Wellington are we going to tolerate? Especially now that we know how badly it’s tying...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Meng Foon might want to think about resigning
Friday, 21 April 2023, 5:06pmI’d say Meng Foon is in a position where he should probably think about quitting his job. It’s been revealed that he’s a...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Why did Posie's opponents bother with the court case?
Friday, 24 March 2023, 4:43pmSo Posie Parker is on her way to NZ, due to land in about an hour’s time. The court case to try to ban her failed this morning. The...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: I don't understand why Chris Hipkins didn't just fire Stuart Nash
Thursday, 16 March 2023, 6:17pmI don’t understand why Chris Hipkins didn’t just fire Stuart Nash from all of his portfolios yesterday. He should’ve. I...
