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With a straight down the middle approach, Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive on Newstalk ZB delivers the very latest news and views to New Zealanders as they wrap up their day.

  1. 1 HR AGO

    Enda Brady: UK correspondent on King Charles and Queen Camilla beginning their visit with Donald Trump

    King Charles and Queen Camilla spent the day with the Trumps at the White House, beginning their four-day US state visit. The royal visit follows the weekend shooting outside the White House Correspondents' Dinner - with a gunman charging a security checkpoint outside the Washington Hilton. UK correspondent Enda Brady says the royals will be walking a 'diplomatic tightrope', given the tensions between the US and UK amid the ongoing Middle East conflict. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    4 min

  2. 1 HR AGO

    Paul Bloxham: HSBC Chief Economist on Australia and New Zealand looking to lift rates amid ongoing fuel crisis

    While most of the world will hold interest rates and wait out the energy shock, Australia and New Zealand are set to lift their rates up. Both nations are looking to bring down inflation, and the ongoing fuel crisis is set to pose additional economic risks.  HSBC Chief Economist Paul Bloxham explained why this is the case. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    5 min

  3. 1 HR AGO

    Jamie Mackay: The Country host on what the India FTA means for Kiwi farmers

    New Zealand and India have signed a landmark FTA - which is set to slash tariffs on Kiwi exports to India. The agreement will now be examined by Parliament’s Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee before legislation is introduced to bring it into force.  The Country's Jamie Mackay explains how Kiwi farmers will benefit from this arrangement. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    4 min

  4. 1 HR AGO

    Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: It's strange where people's minds went on the Donald Trump assassination attempt

    I’ll tell you what I found most surprising about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump at the weekend: the number of people who do not believe it really happened or that it was a genuine attempt at all. There are a remarkable number of people who believe the incident was staged and who are openly discussing that belief, including claims that Trump was not actually shot through the ear a couple of months ago. Well, it was more than a couple of months ago - but you get the idea. Within hours of the attempt on his life, the term “staged” appeared in more than 300,000 posts on X. A former CIA agent has gone public saying he thinks it was staged because security moved JD Vance before they moved Donald Trump, which he says is against protocol. Trump, of course, hasn’t helped matters. In his first news conference afterwards, he argued the assassination attempt proves he needs to build a new ballroom because it would be much safer. That is obviously not the logic of a normal person who has just been in the same building as someone with a gun who wants to kill them. And if we’re being honest, it probably doesn’t help that Trump has now had so many assassination attempts on his life that it’s starting to feel like each time it happens, you care a little less. It also doesn’t help - frankly - that it’s Trump. He is so unconventional that it is more believable he would stage a false-flag event like this than, say, Barack Obama, who is far more conventional. I’m resisting the temptation to take the mickey out of people who don’t believe the assassination attempts were real. As silly as it seems to me - and I do think it stretches credibility to believe Trump would stage not one but at least two attempts on his own life, given how much could go wrong when weapons are involved - part of me actually takes comfort in the number of people thinking this way. I might not agree with where they’ve landed, but I like the fact that they are assessing the facts for themselves and reaching conclusions different from mine, different from the majority view, different from the consensus. It’s strange that this is where some people’s minds go. Clearly, someone tried to kill Trump at the weekend and thinking otherwise is a conspiracy theory. But maybe conspiracy theories aren’t all bad if they at least show that people are exercising their brains independently. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    2 min

  5. 1 HR AGO

    The Huddle: Do we believe the Trump conspiracies?

    Tonight on The Huddle, Auckland Councillor Maurice Williamson and Child Fund CEO Josie Pagani joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more! There was another assassination attempt on Donald Trump over the weekend, but some have written this off as a 'false flag'. What do we make of this? Do we believe the conspiracies?  The Maiki Sherman saga - what do we make of this? Should TVNZ sack her?  The New Zealand-India FTA has been sorted out - what do we think of this?  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    11 min
  6. Full Show Podcast: 28 April 2026

    2 HR AGO

    Full Show Podcast: 28 April 2026

    Listen to the Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive Full Show Podcast for Tuesday 28 April. Get the Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive Full Show Podcast every weekday evening on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    1hr 41min

  7. 2 HR AGO

    Nicola Willis: Finance Minister on the Government's plan to loosen restrictions for heavy vehicles

    The Government says there will be downsides to loosening restrictions on heavy vehicles. Trucking lobby group Transporting New Zealand is calling for weight restrictions to loosen immediately, not just in Phase Two of the fuel response. Finance Minister Nicola Willis says the Government's looking into options they can implement quickly - and they're weighing up the benefits and drawbacks. "I wouldn't rule out progressing them in Phase One, because actually, what they'll do is reduce the cost of fuel for major diesel users."   LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    8 min

  8. 2 HR AGO

    Trish Deans: Devonport-Takapuna Board Chair on the proposed 'comfort women' statue being denied

    A controversial statue in Auckland honouring women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Army during World War II won't go ahead.  The Devonport-Takapuna Board has voted 4 to 2 to deny the Korean Garden Trust the permission to build it at Barry's Point Reserve in Takapuna.  More than 600 people had given feedback on the statue, including the Japanese Embassy - who opposed it.  Devonport-Takapuna Board Chair Trish Deans says the statue was a 'political statement' - and it didn't have a place in this context.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    3 min
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With a straight down the middle approach, Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive on Newstalk ZB delivers the very latest news and views to New Zealanders as they wrap up their day.

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