Heather du Plessis-Allan
Reporter, Presenter
After studying politics at Auckland University, South African-born Heather du Plessis-Allan did stints at TV3 and Radio Live before nearly a decade as a reporter for TVNZ, including two years on Seven Sharp. She gave up her dream job as a political reporter in 2015 — moving back to TV3 to co-host primetime current affairs show Story, and rejoin Radio Live. After a 2015 Story report demonstrating the ease of buying guns online, police raided her home, and procedures for gun purchases were swiftly amended. She left television in 2017, joining Newstalk ZB as a morning host, before taking over the drive time news and current affairs slot in 2019.
Those guys are slick, man. They stage things. They make it seem there's conflict in the party when there isn't, in order to achieve an aim. They release information in order to distract you from something. That stuff is so reprehensible that calling them out on it is the rewarding part. Heather du Plessis-Allan on covering politics, in a 9 August 2015 interview with Sunday magazine
