The Iron Duke Podcast

Power bills, interest bills, grocery bills, they're all ramping up! This week we talk all things needed for a competative market. We also cover off the fraudulent ways people are getting kids into good schools and the heat Kamala Harris is bringing to the presidental race.

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 back-to-back with another week of fun Olympic facts, Henry outlines the Government’s new Climate Emissions Tool for manufacturers and Jesse gives us the downlow on Minister Erica Stanford’s new way to teach math to school kids. The lows include the UK...

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 the regulating of the online casino market, the future for nuclear power, rising social licence issues with tourism across the globe and the not-so-democratic election in Venezuela. The release of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse i...

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 the global CrowdStrike outage and New Zealand might finally be following suit with open banking. They discuss Kamala Harris taking over from Sleepy Joe, the Tauranga City election, the Health NZ takeover and the dire times of New Zealand’s ene...

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 for VP. We also discuss the latest Emissions Reduction Plan from the Government, the continuation of the Darleen Tana Saga, some interesting speed camera policy and New Zealand’s poor OECD stats.

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 sector (again), as well as the French election results and the implosion of President Biden and his Democratic Party and supporters. But after every storm, there is a rainbow – this week it is Going for Housing Growth, the smartest of RUC possib...

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 weekly peaks entail Maddy getting excited over the Government’s next quarterly plan, Jesse unpacks PCE Simon Upton’s latest speech on inconvenient truths to an environmentalists, while Henry explores how NZ is going to surf its way to prosper...

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 cancer drugs and ponder if we can really save every bird? 

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 the way to be harrassed for info over instagram, he's a busy busy guy! We also cover off scrutiny week, Beach Energy and how tough it is for Henry to buy a house.

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 of the year, Jesse gets stuck into the oil and gas ban, more MPs (and now parties too…) getting in trouble, the 2024 India election, the equity around Lotto, plus Maddy and Henry go head-to-head over the MP accommodation allowance.

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 return of economics king Henry!

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 day, Jesse, Maddy and Henry take you through their peaks and troughs of the budget and outline some of the fiscal funnies that they have come across.

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 gender,  whether Peter Jackson and Gollum are going to pull us out of the economic downturn, more MPs getting in trouble (a weekly occurrence at the moment), the Kāinga Ora review is finally complete, and the dangers of Auckland’s CBD. Tune in lat...

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 off, MP's ducking for cover, and those ducking out altogether... for Treasure Island perhaps?

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 report card.

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 of our climate hearts - James Shaw

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 your favourite cold and flu tablets, the review into state housing and the ongoing state of media.

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 Jesse pays his respect to policy and psychology hero Daniel Kahneman.

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 school kids are naughty, to more money coming the way of young families, but perhaps not through the budget? They also get through also debate that sneaky Chinese cyber attack, kids on social media, before the ultimate showdown over the cos...

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 restrictions that are in the pipeline, the exit interview of Grant Robertson, rounding it out with a bit of money talk on tax cuts and GDP.

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 international students, interest deductibility, the speed of India's rise and if we're doing enough to make sure we're on that train, before we try to unpack what on earth is happening in the house of commons.

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 the school build programme, as well as the end of free lunches for kids as we know them. We also cover off the million dollar man’s cheeky $52,000 entitled entitlement before saying ma te wa to Newshub. 

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 is an opportunity for Labour to refresh and rejuvenate. With that, we also cover speed cameras, the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and National's welfare stance. 

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 parking of the family wagon is about to get a hell of a lot more expensive.

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 heavier policy challenges that seem to have resurfaced in recent weeks including capital gains tax, minimum wage increases and just why the world seems to be so unfair for ute owners.