Duncan Garner

Duncan Garner
Born (1974-03-08) 8 March 1974 (age 50)
North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealand
Education
Occupations
  • Broadcaster
  • journalist
  • writer
  • television personality
Years active1995–present
Employers
Television
Children4
WebsiteDuncan Garner: Editor in Chief

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Duncan Garner (born 8 March 1974) is a New Zealand broadcaster and journalist.

He took over the Radio Live drive slot in December 2012[1] and was previously the Newshub political editor in Wellington. He moved to host The AM Show in 2017, which was broadcast on Three and Radio Live.[2] Garner left Three on 23 August 2021, after a career of almost 20 years with the channel.[3]

After receiving a degree in communications from AUT, Garner began his career at TVNZ in the mid 1990s, as a political reporter for veteran broadcaster Paul Holmes.[4] He was praised in his early career for his scoop-heavy journalism, winning the 2004 Newspaper Publishers' Association award for Television Political News Reporter after exposing a $195,000 golden handshake received by then-Labour Party MP John Tamihere. After a second nomination for the award, in 2010, Three launched the weekend current affairs programme The Nation with Garner as co-host.[5]

Garner is known as an opinionated and sometimes divisive media personality,[6] and has been described by the SBS as right-wing.[7][8] He is a noted critic of Jacinda Ardern's premiership, often criticising her government's policies on his shows.[9][10][11] He has been embroiled in several controversies to do with race and ethnicity. In 2017, Garner wrote in his Stuff.co.nz newspaper column of a "human snake" in a Kmart queue, to comment on high levels of South Asians and Syrians immigrating to New Zealand.[12] The Press, who published his comments, found his comments to be in breach of anti-racism standards.[7] He is also noted for his impassioned response to Taika Waititi's criticism of racism in New Zealand, and criticism of the New Zealand government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[13]

Garner went onto present a mid-morning show for the news and talk radio station Today FM, which ceased broadcasting after just over a year on air. He was retained by station owners Mediaworks to present a podcast.[14]

  1. ^ "Duncan Garner on RadioLIVE". RadioLIVE. December 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
  2. ^ Harvey, Kerry. "The AM Show's Duncan Garner: 'I love a fight, I love a challenge'". Stuff. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  3. ^ "Duncan Garner cites 'brutal hours' for leaving TV3". RNZ. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  4. ^ Screen, NZ On. "Duncan Garner | NZ On Screen". www.nzonscreen.com. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
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  6. ^ Pellegrino, Nicky. "Duncan Garner's biggest test". Now To Love. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  7. ^ a b "Taika Waititi pokes fun at Duncan Garner after being told to 'lighten up' about racism". Stuff. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  8. ^ Episode 146 (in Traditional Chinese), retrieved 4 December 2022
  9. ^ "Duncan Garner: Jacinda Ardern and Kris Faafoi have stuffed up the proposed hate speech law". Newshub. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  10. ^ "Duncan Garner: Jacinda Ardern's big promises have failed spectacularly". Newshub. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  11. ^ "Duncan Garner: If Jacinda Ardern can give the Mongrel Mob $2.75m for meth rehab, where is the money for NZ's undervalued midwives?". Newshub. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  12. ^ Garner, Duncan (22 December 2017). "Duncan Garner: Dear NZ, how do we want to look in 20 years?". Stuff. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  13. ^ "Taika's blurt makes media mad as f***". RNZ. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  14. ^ "Former Today FM host Duncan Garner to host podcast in MediaWorks lifeline". New Zealand Herald. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 4 May 2023.