Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Australia have won the Cricket World Cup for a sixth time, chasing 241 to beat India by six wickets with seven overs to spare in Ahmedabad.

Man-of-the-match Travis Head made 137 off 120 balls.

ZB sports commentator Elliott Smith recaps this victory.

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The boss of Australian telecommunications company Optus has resigned after a nationwide outage affected millions.

CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin quit after a senate grilling last week.

She'll be replaced by the Chief Financial Officer.

A major cyber attack last year - also under her tenure - compromised personal documents of two million customers.

Australia correspondent Oliver Peterson says her handling of the outage was criticised.

"She was very reluctant to get onto the front foot, didn't say much- finally came in kicking and screaming to actually reveal what had happened."

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Warnings malls will only get busier, after shoppers at Westfield Newmarket were trapped inside the carpark for hours on Saturday afternoon.

The Auckland shopping centre is apologising to customers left sitting in queues to get out for at least three hours.

Newmarket Business Association's Mark Knoff-Thomas says demand will only rise the closer we get to Christmas, with Black Friday likely to be the busiest yet.

"We want to be ready for that. There are lots of options- buses ae available, trains are available, people can car-share and if you do take your car, you've got to really plan your time."

Knoff-Thomas says Saturday's bad weather, combined with Black Friday pre-sales, to cause road congestion.

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A survey of our 200 largest and fastest growing tech exporters shows the sector is booming.

Revenue for the so-called TIN 200 increased 11.8 percent to $17 billion in the past year.

Current Managing Director at TIN, Greg Shanahan, told Heather Du Plessis-Allan that “the sector is reaching maturity, and the number of large companies is growing dramatically”.   

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The Auditor General has slammed the public service after looking at how tax payer money is spent.

He's found a lot of them don't measure whether the money they're spending is making a difference.

Performance measures for the Education Ministry include how many times the website is visited.

Former Work and Income boss Christine Rankin told Heather du-Plessis Allan the timing of this is evident.

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An Auckland Doctor has been found to have committed professional misconduct after writing thousands of prescriptions for ADHD medication without specialist approval. 

Dr Tony Hanne argued that he saw a need to prescribe the medication to help people with the diagnosis. 

Heather Du Plessis-Allan spoke to Clinical Psychologist Dougal Southerland who said although he agrees there are negative consequences for people with ADHD if not treated, he did not agree with what the doctor did to get the patients medication.

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The Act Party Leader says we are still days, not hours, away from a government arrangement.

Today marks two weeks since the official vote count, and party leaders say they're getting close to a final deal but negotiations are expected to remain in Auckland over the coming days.

Winston Peters earlier said the finish line was closer than people thought, but David Seymour told Heather du Plessis Allan there are still a number of steps ahead.

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Signs Winston Peters is pleased with today's progress in government-forming talks.

Party leaders say they're getting close to a final deal but negotiations are expected to continue in Auckland over the weekend.

Peters earlier emerged from a two-and-a-half hour meeting with Luxon.

Political Editor Jason Walls told Heather du Plessis Allan he was chipper.

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Rishi Sunak is determined to push through emergency legislation to resurrect his plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.

The UK's Supreme Court had previously ruled this proposal was unlawful in a unanimous rejection.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says Rishi Sunak outlined his next steps to push the legislation through before Christmas.

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Tonight on The Huddle, Nick Mills from ZB's Wellington Mornings and Auckland Councillor Richard Hills joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day- and more!

The three main parties have stayed quiet about the details of their coalition negations, but some National MPs have said they're close to forming a Government. What do we think of this? Are we over the waiting period? 

Auckland Council is making progress on proposed congestion charges, with Wayne Brown being particularly eager to get these charges going. Is this a money-raising exercise?

MFAT staff have reduced their use of Te Reo in official documents released to the incoming Government- is this a bad look?

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