Karl du Fresne

Friday, October 31, 2008

Isn't democracy grand?

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(First published in the Curmudgeon column, Dominion Post , October 28.) BEFORE you get giddy with power at the thought of exercising your u...
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The Fulton Hogan Syndrome

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Let me tell you about my jinxed relationship with roading contractors Fulton Hogan. My heart sinks whenever I see one of their trucks on the...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Hail a true democrat

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The most telling moment in Monday night’s minor parties debate came towards the end, when Mark Sainsbury (who I thought did a pretty good jo...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

An interesting new tack on abortion

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The Women’s National Abortion Action Campaign is objecting to TV ads encouraging voters to consider election candidates’ positions on aborti...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Public sympathy is with the shop owners

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(Published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , October 15.) When police announced they had arrested South Auckland liquor store owner...

Jim Anderton chases his tail

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Few politicians have a more touching faith in the power of legislation than Jim Anderton. His first instinct whenever he sees something he d...
Monday, October 20, 2008

The Guardian joins the speech police

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In a recent edition of The Spectator , columnist Rod Liddle listed words and phrases that have been banned by the left-leaning, politically ...
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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 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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