Duncan Garner
New Zealand right-wing television personality and journalist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Duncan Garner (born 8 March 1974) is a New Zealand broadcaster and journalist.
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Born | (1974-03-08) 8 March 1974 (age 50) North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand |
Nationality | New Zealand |
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Years active | 1995–present |
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Children | 4 |
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]