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All Blacks captain Sam Cane believes New Zealand Rugby needs to have a conversation about allowing international players to play their club rugby abroad.

The flanker's fronted media with new Japan League One club Suntory Sungoliath - where he was alongside South Africa's Cheslin Koble.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains the wider implications of this idea.

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Sam Cane is the latest to suggest opening up the All Blacks’ eligibility to New Zealanders playing for overseas clubs.

The current All Blacks captain has asked NZ Rugby to consider allowing players overseas to be eligible for national selection.

Former Springbok and rugby commentator Kevin Putt approves of this idea, claiming it's been successful for South Africa.

"What we've got to look at is- why are we 7th in the world in the under-20s? We've got France and Ireland one and two, we've got years of pain ahead of us at the moment."

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Greece's Prime Minister has criticised Rishi Sunak's last-minute cancellation of an anticipated meeting.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis had hoped to raise the issue of returning the Elgin Marbles amid heated disagreements.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says the Greek Government have been trying for years to get the collection back after the British stole them.

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Tonight on the Huddle, Jordan Williams from the Taxpayers' Union and Jack Tame from ZB's Saturday Mornings and Q&A joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day- and more! 

Winston Peters is under fire for attacking the media and making inaccurate statements about public funding on the new Government's first-ever Cabinet meeting session. Does Winston have a point? How does this reflect on the Government?

An NZ On Air board member has resigned after making a social media post calling out new Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters’ attack on media independence. Is this the right call?

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As part of the coalition agreement, the Government revealed some new changes for the Reserve Bank.

Its dual mandate will be ditched- and focus will return to keeping inflation between one and three percent.

HSBC chief economist Paul Bloxham says reduced priorities means the Reserve Bank will only have one clear goal to meet.

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National's newly appointed Agriculture Minister has promised to review several on-farm regulations before the end of the year.

Todd McClay plans to implement new changes to freshwater rules by Christmas- to the approval of the region's farming community.

Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford welcomes the arrival of McClay and says he and his associate ministers Nicola Grigg, Andrew Hoggard and Mark Patterson will make a great team.

The Country host Jamie Mackay explains further.

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A date has been set for disgraced businessman Eric Watson's bankruptcy case to be called.

The liquidators of Watson’s company, Cullen Investments, have chased him for roughly $57.4 million, plus interest.

Auckland's High Court confirmed that the bankruptcy proceeding will be called on February 1, 2024.

BusinessDesk managing editor Pattrick Smellie says Watson's been staving off problems for over a decade.

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Winston Peters has doubled down on conspiratorial comments about the media, and gone further.

Yesterday, he called a $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund a Government 'bribe'.

Today, ahead of the Government's first Cabinet meeting, Peters asked media to tell the public what criteria had to be signed up to- to get the money.

ZB political editor Jason Walls says Luxon will likely be annoyed with Winston's remarks.

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The Government's plan to slash the public sector is having an adverse impact on Wellington's property market.

According to ANZ's latest property report, Wellington's housing market is lagging behind the rest of the country as people brace for job losses.

ANZ economist Andre Castaing says housing markets all over the nation are expected to go sideways within the next year.

"The housing market in Wellington- we would characterise that as having the potential to be a touch slower. However across the country, there's a range of things impacting house prices."

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Pharmac is about to run out of a crucial pain relief drug.

The drug-buying agency was warned two years ago the Pfizer factory producing one-milligram liquid morphine is closing.

But it hasn't found a replacement before New Zealand's supplies run out next month.

Analgesic Advisory Committee member Catherine D'Souza says Pfizer promised to help find alternatives, but didn't.

"Which is really disappointing. So then Pharmac looks at opening a competitive process asking for companies to apply to provide New Zealand with this product, but there were no bids at all."

A Pfizer spokesperson issued the following statement:

"The transfer of sponsorship of RA-Morph was Friday 22 September and supply was available from Bridgewest on Monday 9 October. Pfizer and Bridgewest worked cooperatively to ensure continuity of supply to customers in New Zealand was maintained in the interim. 

Pfizer has been in regular communication with Pharmac on medicines supplied from the Perth site. Following the decision to exit the Perth site (the site was divested in April 2023 and purchased by Bridgewest Group - the sale having closed on 4 April 2023), it was also decided to discontinue the manufacturing of RA-Morph and its supply in New Zealand.     

In the interest of patients, and to ensure that the market had lead-time to seek alternative means of supply, a discontinuation notice was given to Pharmac with two years’ notice in September 2021." 

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