Duncan Garner | Editor-in-Chief

Are the Greens actually listening to farmers, or has ideology already decided the answer?

South Island farmer Simon travelled 1,000 kilometres to Wellington to explain what is happening on the ground.

Wilding pines spreading. Conservation land deteriorating. Farmers doing pest control, fencing and restoration work while the system remains trapped in bureaucracy.

He even invited the Greens to visit his farm and see it for themselves.

But will any of it change their vote?

In today’s episode, Duncan speaks directly with the farmers who say New Zealand’s 40-year-old conservation system is failing the land it is supposed to protect.

Watch the full episode and tell us: Should farmers have a greater role in managing conservation land?

1 week ago | [YT] | 19

Duncan Garner | Editor-in-Chief

COMING UP ON THE PODCAST TODAY:

The latest Roy Morgan numbers are in, and the political landscape is shifting!

National is in the lead, but the Greens, NZ First, and ACT are locked in a tight battle for the middle. TOP is making a surprising surge to 6.5%.

What does this mean for the road to the next election? We will break it all down on tonight's podcast. Don’t miss it!

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 53

Duncan Garner | Editor-in-Chief

National and Labour have a problem, and it is bigger than each other.

The latest 1News Verian poll has Labour on 32 percent and National on 29. Combined, the two parties that have dominated New Zealand politics for 30 years are sitting at just 61 percent, while TOP has climbed to 4.6 percent and is suddenly within touching distance of Parliament.

That is not a minor wobble. It is a warning.

Voters are tired of cautious leadership, recycled promises and being told to wait while the country goes nowhere fast.

As I said on yesterday’s podcast: “You’re both utterly uninspiring and not doing enough.”

I took a proper look at why the big two are losing their grip, why smaller parties are benefiting, and why TOP now deserves serious scrutiny rather than a free ride.

Watch the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ed0...

I’m also opening up another Team Duncan AMA.

What do you want to ask me? Politics, media, the election, the podcast, behind the scenes, or anything else. Drop your question in the comments and I’ll answer the best ones in the next members’ edition.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 28

Duncan Garner | Editor-in-Chief

Auckland’s waterfront should be pumping on a Sunday. Instead, it looked abandoned.

Empty tables. Food stalls with no customers. Businesses wondering how they’ll survive winter.

That’s what a weak economy looks like in the real world.

Meanwhile, the election campaign is already filling up with the same tired answers. The Greens want a wealth tax. Labour wants a capital gains tax. National is reviving KiwiSaver policies it once scrapped. New Zealand First wants the Government to buy a bank.

Everyone has a plan to tax, spend or own more.

Hardly anyone is talking seriously about the one thing New Zealand desperately needs: growth.

Real business growth. Higher productivity. More investment. Better jobs. More wealth being created before politicians start fighting over how to divide it.

You cannot tax a country into prosperity. You cannot redistribute wealth that was never created.

New Zealand doesn’t need another argument about slicing up the pie.

We need leaders capable of making the bloody thing bigger.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 7

Duncan Garner | Editor-in-Chief

Labour is ahead in the poll.

But here’s the problem.

It still doesn’t have the seats to govern.

National, ACT and NZ First are still in front as a bloc, and Duncan reckons Labour’s latest transport policy shows why: the numbers don’t stack up, and the trust isn’t back.

So is Labour really winning?

Or just leading a poll?

watch the video here: https://youtu.be/yicpxdL9pj8?si=uVXiN...

1 month ago | [YT] | 34

Duncan Garner | Editor-in-Chief

I got it wrong.

I drove while my licence was still suspended. I genuinely believed it had ended, but I was 12 days short.

I have accepted the conviction and the punishment. No excuses.

This is the full story.

1 month ago | [YT] | 11

Duncan Garner | Editor-in-Chief

Is this really the most racist government New Zealand has ever had?

Come on.

That’s the claim from Tukoroirangi Morgan, but it falls apart the moment you put it beside actual history.

Land confiscations. Māori kids punished for speaking te reo. Labour’s foreshore and seabed law shutting Māori out of court.

That was real. That mattered. That changed politics in this country.

So here’s the question: when every political disagreement gets called racism, does the word still mean anything?

Because this Government may be unpopular with Morgan. It may be wrong on parts of Treaty policy. Argue that all day.

But “the most racist ever”?

That’s not history. That’s theatre.

👉 Check the episode here: https://youtu.be/4L-syhnVknY

And tell me honestly: has the word “racist” become too easy to throw around in New Zealand politics?

1 month ago | [YT] | 76

Duncan Garner | Editor-in-Chief

Labour got addicted to spending.
National got elected to stop it.
So why is the bill still going up?

This week’s Budget will show the truth: National talked tough in opposition, but in government it has kept the same giant machine running.

More borrowing. More spending. More taxpayer money out the door.

And here’s the bit no politician wants to say: New Zealand isn’t just run by a big-spending government. New Zealand has become addicted to government money.

So who’s actually worse? Check the full episode here: https://youtu.be/fouZoBpm35A

1 month ago | [YT] | 103