Karl du Fresne

Police report that in the latest weekend drink-driving blitz, on the North Shore, more than 10,000 drivers were stopped. Of those, 61 were o...

The most entertaining story in today’s Dominion Post (well, in the edition that circulates in the Wairarapa, at least) is a single paragraph...

(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , November 24.) The first time I went to Australia, in early 1972, it was like tr...

Radio New Zealand today reported a speech in which Hutt Valley paediatrician Dr Leo Buchanan lamented the small number of Maori child health...

(First published in the Curmudgeon column, The Dominion Post , November 23.)  WHEN I heard that Radio New Zealand host Kim Hill was going to...

(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard, November 10.) I see from a recent TV news item that Clint Eastwood, at 80, has ju...

(First published in the Curmudgeon column, The Dominion Post, November 9.) How come, when tragedy strikes a small town, it’s always describe...