Heather Duplessy-Allen

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1,913 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 11 Jun

Heather Duplessy-Allen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Mike Hosking Breakfast · Full Show Podcast: 09 June 2026 · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

But, yeah, look, I just think it's a magnificent appointment, first and foremost.

So kudos to the New Zealand Rugby Union for pulling trigger in the words of the great Tony Brown early.

of a portfolio, which is generally the attack, which would be like launches off line out and scrum, counterattack, and just getting his hands dirty rather than dealing with the politics or the bigger picture stuff and probably dealing with the media, et cetera.

He would rather be getting his hands dirty with the players.

Bringing back some of the IP from South Africa.

Yeah, that's huge.

But he's leaving a lot over there as well, Heather, for them, which they've, you know, like we've noticed in their game over the last two and a half years, how far they've come in terms of they used to be pretty one-dimensional, crash, bash, box, kick, pressure into submission, and you've seen a little bit of subtlety come into their game, and that's driven off the back of how Tony Brown coaches.

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The Mike Hosking Breakfast full show podcast on iHeartRadio.

Well, I'm disappointed for Rakesh Naidoo, who's done everything right.

He's acted with the utmost integrity through this process.

As we said when we announced his candidacy yesterday, he's worked very hard to preserve the political independence of the police and acknowledged right up front that he would now have to work through a process with the police commissioner about transitioning out of his work with the police.

He told his employer at police at that time.

I think he told them earlier in the week.

I think he told his supervisor earlier in the week.

We did certainly have a much shorter process for him.

No, look, I think Kingi Kiriona probably chose some words unfortunate in the press conference that we did the other day.

We've been clear that cost of living is a focus.

There'll be some cost of living relief coming from the Labour Party during the campaign.

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