Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

On the Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive Full Show Podcast with Andrew Dickens for Friday, 12 June, 2026, Mike Angove from the Walk Without Fear Charitable Trust tells us how disappointed he is at the watering down of "coward punch" legislation.
A Field-good story. Infometrics chief executive Brad Olsen on the success of this year's Fieldays.
Hamilton mayor Tim Macindoe on why he's excited about plans for the city's first skyscraper.
And on the Sports Huddle, Nathan Limm and Jeff McTainsh are not that fussed with the World Cup opening ceremony but the actual action's not bad.
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Elon Musk is set to become the world's first trillionaire as SpaceX finally hits the US stock market.
Max Rashbrooke, senior research fellow of economic inequality at Victoria University of Wellington told Andrew Dickens, "we live in a world where a lot of people have got nothing or they're may be worth a dollar and it's sort of hard to think that someone is 1 trillion times more worthy or has contributed 1 trillion times more to humanity than someone else.
"So, I find it very hard to justify."
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The FIFA World Cup kicked off today with co-host Mexico taking on South Africa in the opening match with performances by Shakira and Burna Boy.
Although, entertainment journalist Karl Puschmann was not a fan of the festivities.
He told Andrew Dickens he wished he'd stayed in bed as the show "was flatter than a day old soft drink."
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A proposed new hotel set on the banks of the Waikato River could be Hamilton's first skyscraper standing at 25 storeys high.
Kiwi high-rise developer Templeton Group presented the preliminary design for the Victoria Street Tower to Hamilton City Council on Thursday.
Hamilton Mayor Tim Macindoe told Andrew Dickens he is 'fully on board' with the development.
"There are all sorts of wonderful things happening in our city, and we need these beds and we need a, a top-quality hotel and I think this is really going to deliver in a spectacular way."
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ACT and New Zealand First are in favour of a minimum non-parole period of 8 years for offenders who commit manslaughter by a strike to the head or the neck - the coward punch. But, National and the opposition parties are not keen.
Board member of the Walk Without Fear Trust, Mike Angove, told Andrew Dickens he is disappointed in National's lack of support.
"National have indicated that they're going to look at bespoke law, but essentially, remembering that Matt King, originally a National Party member, started this 8 years ago, almost 9 years ago. National has been right behind this the whole way, but they've faltered at the hurdle."
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