Heather du Plessis-Allan

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1,719 appearances 58 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Sep

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The Mike Hosking Breakfast · 100 Years of ZB: Mike Hosking and Heather du Plessis-Allan talk the strength of ZB today - and what will make it strong in the future · 19 Sep 2026 podcast

No.

But also I think it's a very clear focus on success.

We are all very clear on what it means to be successful because once every quarter we have the survey meetings, we sit down, we discuss it.

We have our eyes on the prize the whole time just by dint of what we do.

I guess, do you not think it is something that you tune, that you fine-tune over years of

Yeah, is that...

Which Prime Minister was

quote you something as well.

Somebody said to me the other day, they said, it has been said in the National Party for the longest time.

It's not caucus who gets to decide who the next Prime Minister is.

It's Mike Hosking.

Yeah.

I think your upbringing is really important to that.

I think you have to have been in touch with all aspects of New Zealand.

I don't think you can come out of an overly privileged background and understand the country.

But I think it is something that you fine-tune as you go along, right?

Because that text machine that's sitting in front of you, it sort of keeps you... If you start straying off into something that people do not think is interesting, they let you know really quickly, so you're constantly in touch.

It's constant.

And it's an art, not a science,

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