On the Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive Full Show Podcast with Ryan Bridge for Thursday, 30 July, 2026, Winston Peters is getting told off by the Prime Minister for telling a Green MP to go back to his country. That MP, Lawrence Xu-Nan, tells Ryan what the consequence should be.

We speak to a high school principal about why 15% of teens are leaving school without any NCEA qualifications.

Auckland FC have a shiny new coach from Portugal. The club's CEO Nick Becker is pretty excited about it. Ryan asks if the new guy can get us back-to-back A-League Championships.

And on The Huddle, Gareth Hughes and Maurice Williamson get riled up about the government saying there won't be a ban on the sale of fireworks.

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