Karl du Fresne

Monday, December 29, 2008

Let's be honest about child deaths

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(Published in the Curmudgeon column, The Dominion Post , December 23.) WE’RE killing our kids, according to a recent news item. Two children...
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Holmes: egotistical to the end

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(Published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , December 24.) A funny thing happened on Monday morning. For the first time in 22 years...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

McVicar's U-turn

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SENSIBLE Sentencing Trust spokesman Garth McVicar irrevocably blew his credibility when he said Bruce Emery, the Auckland man who fatally st...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Good riddance to the Fitz

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I rejoiced at the news, reported in today’s Dominion Post , that Palmerston North’s Fitz Tavern is to close. The Fitz, in its heyday a famou...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The Kiwi Diaspora

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There was a thoughtful piece by Simon Upton in today’s Dominion Post (actually, all Upton’s pieces are thoughtful) on the Kiwi Diaspora. He ...
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Tony the Terminator strikes again

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Earlier this week, Radio New Zealand’s Midday Report broadcast an item about a Napier judge who packed a man off to the cells for making a h...
Friday, December 12, 2008

The effrontery of Caroline Evers-Swindell

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(Published Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , December 10). That cheeky Caroline Evers-Swindell! Just who does she think she is? Somewhere ...
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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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