Duncan Garner

rdf:langString Duncan Garner

rdf:langString Duncan Garner

rdf:langString Duncan Garner

rdf:langString The Press

rdf:langString New Zealand

rdf:langString Television journalist

rdf:langString Duncan Garner (born 8 March 1974) is a New Zealand radio and television host and journalist. He took over the Radio Live drive slot in December 2012 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. Garner left Three on 23 August 2021, after a career of almost 20 years with the channel. 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. 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 program The Nation with Garner as co-host. Garner is known as an opinionated and sometimes divisive media personality, and has been described by the SBS as right-wing. He is a noted critic of Jacinda Ardern's premiership, often criticising her government's policies on his shows. 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. The Press, who published his comments, found his comments to be in breach of anti-racism standards. 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. In November 2021, Mediaworks announced that Garner would be joining their new brand of talkshows, set to start in 2022.