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Episode 89: How hard is year 12 math?
The team at Iron Duke Studios runs you through some of their highs and lows from the last seven days in the world of policy and politics. Maddy goes…
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Episode 88: What's an Olympic medal worth?
Your favourite policy and politics podcast rounds out July with a sporting special in appreciation of the 2024 Paris Olympics kicking off. The team also cover…
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Episode 87: Who will Kamala Harris pick as her running mate?
Your weekly policy and politics commentators are back in Iron Duke Studios. The team dive full noise into the IT sector with a debrief on what happened with…
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Episode 86: Has Trump just won the presidency?
Straight from Iron Duke Studios – Jesse, Maddy and Henry take you through the big news in the US with Trump being shot and his confident selection of JD Vance…
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Episode 85: Should the Government track us?
Another relentless week of policy and politics to recap on. The team first take you through their doom and glooms, including the Early Childcare Education…
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Episode 84: Can we surf our way to prosperity?
Iron Duke Studios is jam packed today with all three of your favourite podcasters covering a grand old week of policy and politics from around the world. The…
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Episode 83: Which birds should we save?
It’s just Jesse and Maddy this week as the colleague with the good hair takes some much needed R&R. They cover off the up coming presidential debate, cash for…
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Episode 82: Should we buy the government's plane?
A big week in politics but one hero seems to be making it into every story, king of the YIMBY's Chris Bishop. From granny flats and fast track consents, all…
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Episode 81: Should we be paying an MP's mortgage?
Buckle up as the IDP trio take you through their ups and downs of this week’s policy and politics. We cover everything from it being the most agricultural time…
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Episode 80: Where are our cancer drugs?
How bad is our drinking problem? Plus the end of department stores, the overregulation of your kid's kindy, another turn in the story of Tiwai Point and the…
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Episode 79: The Big Budget Special!
It’s the most exciting time of the year – the day you have all been waiting for – Budget 2024! After studying the documentation of the nation’s piggy bank all…
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Episode 78: Will Gollum end the recession?
This week your IDP trio discuss whether there is opportunity in us following Singapore’s Temasek investment model, NZ’s first human rights case based on…
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Episode 77: Strike Force Raptor?
Another big week in politics as we take you through the Strike Force Raptor rising from the ashes, the state of the US presidential elections, startups taking…
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Episode 76: Property managers, heroes or zeroes?
Another big week in the policy world! We talk the funding of water, Maddy and Henry battle it out over property management, the cell phone ban and our OECD…
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Episode 75: Do single sex schools produce smarter kids?
This week we discuss the ups and downs in cabinets, free speech at university, protectionism, the evidence behind single sex education and we farewell the king…
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Episode 74: Can you support the mega-tunnel?
The team is back with another run through of this weeks biggest stories. From mega tunnels to mega wins for pet owning renters. We also cover off the return of…
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Episode 73: How much do you hate heritage listings?
Another big week in politics! We chat through yet another 100 day plan, the lid being kept on minimum wage, painful heritage listings, the Easter road toll and…
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Episode 72: Should we plumb the Milford Track?
A big episode just in time for the long weekend! Join the team as they chat through what has been a very busy week in politics. From the OECD saying your local…
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Episode 71: to vape or not to vape?
This week we cover off Jesse and Henry's boys trip to the Taranaki - and all the energetic things they learned along the way. We chat about even more vape…
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Episode 70: Are the police paid enough?
It's an episode where the gloves calm on, even the return of Jesse from Dad leave wasn't enough to cool tensions over police pay! We also battle it out over…
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Episode 69: hungry kids and leaking classrooms?
It’s another Maddy and Henry special as we await the return of the big man, Jesse Corlett. This week we go big on education, discussing the axing of much of…
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Episode 68: What is Grant leaving behind?
With Jesse MIA, Maddy and Henry sit down to cover the latest in the Beltway's comings and goings. The big news is Grant Robertson's departure, which Maddy says…
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Episode 67: Brown vs Brown
This week we cover off Trump, debt to income ratios, the cost of skiing, mental health emergency lines, the show down for control in Auckland and how Jesse's…
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Episode 66: Who won Waitangi?
A short work week but a long week in politics! This week we cover off Waitangi - the good, the bad and the plagiarized. We also deep dive into a couple of…
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Episode 65: Byron's last hurrah!
After a solid run of 65 episodes, this is Byron’s last as co-host on the Iron Duke Podcast. But they say when one door closes, another door opens – and in this…
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Episode 64: What's in store for 2024?
In his penultimate episode, Byron kicks off 2024 with a splash (thanks to Wellington's crumbling water infrastructure) and takes a deep dive into Houthi…
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Episode 63: The Great 2023 Recap
it's the annual recap episode, complete with a guest appearance from the Iron Duke himself - Phil O'Reilly. We take you though our peaks and bits, interesting…
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Episode 62: Can you keep up with the speed of Wellington?
With Wellington moving at the speed of light, we pick up the pace to bring you a rapid fire recap of the week in politics. We cover off the big resignation of…
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Episode 61: What's in a (public service agency) name?
We're back to the grind of Wellington and all the policy peaks and pits that come along with it. This week we talk protests, the use of te reo in naming our…
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Episode 60: The three headed taniwha rises from the swamp
We're back recapping the biggest (and perhaps only) news of the week! What's in the coalition agreement, what do they mean, who's hot, who's not and what it…
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Episode 59: The Post Election Special
Catch up with Phil, Byron and Maddy for their post election break down. The seats that have surprised us, the campaigns that were run best and what comes next.
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Episode 58: The Election Prediction Special
Well listeners, will we be eating a slice of humble pie or is this episode your ultimate cheat sheet for Saturday night, only one way to find out! This week we…
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Episode 57: An ode to Winston Peters
We are on the election home straight! This week we recap the madness of the campaign trail, get out of our bubble to have a chat about whats happening in the…
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Episode 56: Lies, lies and polls
With only two weeks before E-Day, is there anything worth discussing other than politics? We talk polls, policies and debates in your weekly round up of what's…
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Episode 55: Does Chris Hipkins just need a red bull?
This week we're back on the campaign trail analysis, who's running out of steam and who needs to learn to just answer the question! We also cover the Nats…
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Episode 54: Political cringe, teeth and tax
This week in politics we cover the campaign cringe that has kicked off the election season, debates, dental care and tax cuts for you, me and everyone in…
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Episode 53: Byron takes a field trip to Australia
After a week off the airways, we're back to recap Byron's Australian adventure. We give the minor parties a good run down this week too, who's ruling Winston…
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Episode 52: A GST plan and a cell phone ban
Maddy and Byron bring you the rapid fire run through of the last week in politics. From the National Party banning phones in schools, the rise of the NZ First…
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Episode 51: Teeth or tunnels?
Politics is heating up with campaign promises left, right and ambitiously somewhere near the centre. We talk about clean energy invest from labour, free dental…
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Episode 50: How much does the tax man want?
Wow! Fifty episodes, who would have thought we would make it this far (not us.) this week we’re talking TAX. The good, the bad and the gst. We also cover off…
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Episode 49: How many spare seats are there at the Cabinet table?
Byron's back after a long trip through the Australian outback! We cover the story of the week, Kiri Allen's parliamentary exit and dive into the big policy and…
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Episode 48: The Electoral Reform Special
An awesome episode with Deborah Hart the chair of The Independent Electoral Review Panel to take us through the current consultation and what it means for us…
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Episode 47: Did you get my letter?
Maddy and Byron are here with the weekly breakdown of all things policy and politics. This week we cover of the Minister Woods airport share fiasco, new vaping…
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Episode 46: Budget 2023? What's in it for me.
We're taking you through the highs and lows, the big winners and big losers, of this years budget. With only four months to run to the election, what does it…
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Episode 45: Rapid fire policy and political round up
We're back! And one of us is very apologetic for our absence... It's just Maddy and Byron taking you through a rapid fire recap of the last three weeks. We…
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Episode 44: Are you dressing ethically?
This week we warm ourselves next to the flames of Hipkins policy bonfire and give our two cents on the state of the Labour party. Later on we're joined by…
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Episode 43: Will you still holiday in the rain?
We're back for another week of rambling and ranting! Byron and Maddy take you through the big ticket items of the week; the teachers strike, the ongoing ferry…
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Episode 42: Can hospitality dry off from the rain?
This week, Byron and Maddy conduct their post-mortem for sacked health boss Rob Campbell, and discuss political neutrality in the public service, three waters…
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Episode 41: What happens when the rain stops falling?
We're all over the floods this week. The cyclone, climate change and the governments response, alongside the big questions like what on earth happens next and…
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Episode 40: Welcome back to Wellington
We’re back to unpack the big news stories of the summer! If a week is a long time in politics, a summer is a lifetime. We cover the Prime Ministers…
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Episode 39: The Year in Review
In our final episode of the year, we are joined by Phil O'Reilly, managing director of Iron Duke Partners and the principal sponsor of the podcasts wildly…
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Episode 38: How do we get our kids to school?
This week we cover off the Finnish Prime Ministers visit, the nurses pay equity agreement and what's happening with the three waters entrenchment . We are…
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Episode 37: Do farmers have it too tough?
Maddy and Byron are back with another recap of the weeks policy and politics highlights. They take us through the huge couple of weeks political leaders have…
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Episode 36: When was the last time you were at the museum?
Maddy and Byron are back to dissect the good, the bad and the ugly of the last week in politics. They run us through what's happening in the U.S midterms, the…
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Episode 35: Did local government get hit by a blue Tsunami?
It's a post match report on the local government elections this week. How much of this did we see coming? What were the major issues and what does the Beehive…
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Episode 34: The Auckland Electoral Special
We're back with another election recap! Chamanthie Sinhalage-Fonseka, Senior Consultant at Baldwin Boyle Group and the resident Iron Duke Auckland expert…
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Episode 33: The Wellington Electoral Special
This week we're joined by the three leading mayoral candidates - Tory Whanau, Paul Eagle and Andy Foster. Tune is as we ask the big questions and hit them with…
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Episode 32: What's your emergency?
This week Byron and Maddy take us through the beehive dramas of the week - both emergency housing and GST on Kiwisaver. We dive into dodgy dealings from one…
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Episode 31: The problem is Wellington, what are the answers?
This week we take you though the fizzer of a parliamentary protest, we explore what the heck sector workforce plans are, Sharma drama continues and say ma te…
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Episode 30: Is Parliament the most dramatic work place in NZ?
Maddy and Byron are back with another rapid fire weekly recap. We cover off who's still got a seat in the beehive cafeteria and who won't come next week. Byron…