Duncan Garner - Editor In Chief

What happens when the right to protest depends on who you are, not the rules?

This episode dives headfirst into the decision to block Brian Tamaki from marching across the Auckland Harbour Bridge, and why Duncan believes authorities have walked straight into a hypocrisy trap. You don’t have to like Tamaki, agree with him, or support his views. That’s not the point. The issue is consistency, fairness, and whether New Zealand still operates as a rules-based democracy.

Duncan lays out decades of examples where protests, marathons, bikes, convoys, and marches were allowed across the same bridge, then asks why this one was suddenly “too dangerous”. Ashley Church and Rod and Christie join the panel to unpack the political fallout, media silence, and what this sets up for the future of protest in New Zealand. From infrastructure failure to free speech, this conversation goes well beyond one man and one bridge.
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The Broadcasting Standards Authority is facing a terminal decline and they've come up with a desperate plan to stay relevant. They want the government to rewrite the law so they can police the internet and control what we say on podcasts and live streams. We talk to Ashley Church and Maurice Williamson about why this mission creep is a massive overreach for a 35-year-old regulator.

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Duncan Garner digs into the collapse of the government’s retail crime advisory committee, a group set up to respond to ram raids and rising violence, but now facing resignations, lavish spending claims, and serious questions about accountability.

With three of five members gone, six-figure invoices, and silence from the responsible minister, it looks less like crime fighting and more like a gravy train.

Then we turn to immigration, the India free trade deal, and explosive whistleblower claims from inside a major pizza delivery franchise. Allegations of migrant workers paying tens of thousands of dollars for jobs, visa pathways being sold, and Kiwis locked out of work raise uncomfortable questions about enforcement, fairness, and who the system is really working for.

Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour joins us to answer what the government is doing about both.
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This investigation just took a sharp turn. What started as concerns about the India free trade deal has now landed right in the heart of New Zealand workplaces.

We share detailed allegations from a franchise owner at a pizza chain, claiming migrant workers are paying tens of thousands of dollars for jobs delivering pizzas, while Kiwis remain out of work. The claims include fee payments of up to $30,000, alleged breaches of immigration rules, and systems that appear designed to favour overseas labour over locals.

Duncan also reads messages from insiders across multiple industries, raising wider concerns about wages, standards, and trust. This episode goes beyond economics and straight into what this deal could mean socially and politically, with voters already forming opinions ahead of the next election.
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Six people are dead, and the questions won’t go away.

On this episode of Duncan Garner: Editor in Chief, we dig into what’s being called an avoidable tragedy and why so many warnings appear to have gone unanswered.

We look at the role of the council, the one-one-one system, and the decisions made years earlier that may have destabilised the land. Were people too slow to act, too afraid to make a call, or trapped in a system drowning in process and paperwork?

We’re joined by Christine Rankin and Ashley Church for a frank discussion about responsibility, bureaucracy, political leadership, and whether New Zealand has lost the ability to make common-sense decisions when it matters most.

We also break down the latest political poll and what it says about Labour, National, and the rise of Winston Peters.
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