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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. Nicola Willis: National Finance Spokesperson and Finance Minister on fiscal plans and fuel prices
05/10/2026 | 9 mins.Petrol prices have hit their highest level since the start of the Iran-US war.
Fuel monitoring site Gaspy today shows the average price of 91 unleaded is three dollars 50 point six.
The latest increase follows a sustained period over where the price of global oil price benchmark Brent Crude has sat above US 100 dollars a barrel.
Finance Minister Nicola Willis told Heather du Plessis-Allan she hasn't had advice on how high the price may go.
She says she's been told the release of additional oil from the International Energy Agency will stop prices spiralling from here.
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05/10/2026 | 3 mins.Northland Cricket board chair Derek Slatter's joined calls in demanding transparency from New Zealand Cricket.
His plea follows criticism from Sir Richard Hadlee and former NZC president Lesley Murdoch at secrecy surrounding the Deloitte report - which examined options for the future of our T20 competition.
Options included collaborating with Australia's Big Bash League or starting a privatised competition.
New Zealand Cricket chose the latter - naming it NZ20 - with a goal to begin next summer.
Slatter told Heather du Plessis-Allan there's a feeling the truth's being hidden.
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05/10/2026 | 3 mins.Medical conditions are being cited as a factor in a death row inmate's botched execution.
Christa Pike was sentenced to death for murder in 1996.
Two lethal doses failed - and the 50-year-old's now in hospital, being given 'life-saving measures'.
Anaesthesiology Professor and legal consultant, Joel Zivot, told Heather du Plessis-Allan it was known Pike had small veins.
He says she also has a medical condition making blood clots more likely.
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05/10/2026 | 3 mins.National's pledging to give stage one of South Auckland's Mill Road - the green light.
The party is promising $1.75 billion in Budget 2028 to begin construction between Manukau and Alfriston.
The four-lane route is designed to ease pressure on State Highway 1 as South Auckland’s population grows.
A further $100 million will go towards protecting the future route for stages two and three through to Drury.
Transport spokesperson Chris Bishop defended the project to Heather du Plessis-Allan, despite the project being cancelled by successive governments.
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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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