Heather du Plessis-Allan: Is the Govt so desperate they announce any half-baked idea?

OPINION: Credit card surcharge ban may lead retailers to increase their prices.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: We are being irrational about the price of butter

OPINION: Unless you’re into commercial scale baking, why the butter angst?

Heather du Plessis-Allan: The one solution to stop more Kiwis moving to Australia

OPINION: Five of the top columns of the year from Heather du Plessis-Allan.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: The mother of all budget requests - this Govt needs to slash even more

OPINION: They need to rip, sh*t and bust. Slash unnecessary spending.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Government all at sea on faltering ferry spend

OPINION: This isn’t doing much for National's attempts to look like better money managers.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Hipkins owes us an apology for ruinous Covid vaccine mandates

OPINION: A lot of people were hurt by the mandates. More people are angry about them.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: We're having the Treaty debate - it’s either hysterical, or adult

OPINION: Labour also needs a cup of tea and lie down to calm their nerves.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Nats, Labour both fail to read the room on Treaty bill

OPINION: The hīkoi is the opposite of organic. It’s a Māori Party protest.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Yes, Trump's a bad guy – but he won and should be better than Biden

OPINION: Trump's a big mouth - it’s hard to know what’s real and what’s bluff.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Tory Whanau's council is a laughing stock

OPINION: It would have to been hard for Simeon Brown to justify NOT intervening.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Cut the crap – the Reserve Bank has stuffed up

OPINION: If the Reserve Bank over-squeezes the economy, Kiwis lose their jobs.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Luxon and 'rich prick' politicians can’t win when it comes to property

OPINION: Conspiracies around Luxon's house sale are much sexier than the boring truth.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Crims the only ones not celebrating Coster's exit

OPINION: It was Coster who raised questions about his own political independence.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: WFH habits hitting Wellington's economy hard

OPINION: Mondays and Fridays are for WFH - working from home.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: The Trump bump even when he says stupid things

OPINION: Media are falling for the same tricks from the same guy eight years on.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Shane Jones vs the judge - he's naughty but not guilty

OPINION: Judges are bristling at the criticism they’re copping.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Greens humiliated by rogue rookie Darleen Tana

OPINION: The Greens have picked a fight with someone they clearly underestimated.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: The PM's right - our mayors and councils are hopelessly out of touch

OPINION: Luxon knew he was picking a fight he was odds-on to win.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: The screeching U-turn that led to OCR cut

OPINION: The economy is stuffed. House prices are going backwards.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: We’re getting close to an energy crisis

OPINION: Our electricity prices last week were said to be the highest in the world.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Govt's gang conundrum - which victims should get abuse in care compo?

OPINION: Either the Government pays compensation to everyone abused, or to no one.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: An inconvenient truth - Tana could linger like a bad smell

OPINION: Darleen Tana is just another badly behaved MP we could do without.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: The slow death of linear TV – sadly Newshub is just the start

OPINION: Newshub is so far the biggest loss in the slow death of linear TV in NZ.

Heather du-Plessis Allan: The two main issues with the Three Strikes Law 2.0

OPINION: Government MPs should prepare for an influx of angry emails.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Wellington City Council needs to call the grown ups in

OPINION: Doubts are emerging that the council's Long-Term Plan will pass.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Hey entitled MPs - the public hates paying off your mortgages

OPINION: Parliament can change the rules if it wants to. It just doesn’t want to.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Public inquiry needed over Te Pāti Māori allegations

OPINION: All those involved in the allegations should want a proper inquiry.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: A Budget of triumph and tragedy for Nicola Willis

OPINION: Finance Minister is no more than big spender Grant Robertson in drag.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Te Pāti Māori's ridiculous behaviour towards Karen Chhour

OPINION: There's a deeply troubling idea at the heart of TPM's comments.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: The one solution to stop more Kiwis moving to Australia

Opinion: The Government has some tough calls to make, writes HDPA.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Labour’s decisions still affect us negatively

OPINION: What happens next is the fault of the last Government.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Why Luxon should have acted like Ardern in pay rise saga

OPINION: The country’s so broke that more than 3000 public servants were fired.