Karl du Fresne

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Showing posts with label anti-smacking law. Show all posts

Friday, July 31, 2015

So much for the Licensed Building Practitioner scheme ...

(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , July 29.) The house I live in was built in 1916. My wife and I plan a party...

Friday, June 29, 2012

When public opinion is okay

THE LEFT keeps howling that the government has no mandate for the partial sale of state assets. Opinion polls seem to support this view,...

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About Me

Karl du Fresne: I'm a third-generation New Zealander of Irish, Danish and French descent. I grew up in the farming town of Waipukurau and still consider it my turangawaewae, although I can walk the length of the main street these days and not recognise a single face. I've written books about press freedom ("The Right to Know", 2005), wine ("The New Zealand Wine-Lover's Companion", 2009) and music ("A Road Tour of American Song Titles: From Mendocino to Memphis", 2016). In a past life I edited a daily newspaper called The Dominion. I was in journalism for more than 50 years and like many journalists I know a little bit about a lot of things and probably not enough about anything. I didn't go to university and have never won any awards. I don't call New Zealanders Kiwis, I've never sat through a reality TV show, I'm not on X, Facebook or Instagram, and I haven't written my own Wikipedia entry.The picture accompanying this profile was drawn by my clever grandson Gabriel.

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