Karl du Fresne

Friday, May 24, 2013

The problem with the Stones is that they're just greedy

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , May 22.) Is the Rolling Stones juggernaut finally running out of steam?...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013

An audience of two at the Regent 3

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Last night I had what can only be described as a Masterton experience. I went to the movies at the Regent 3, and for the first time in m...
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Friday, May 17, 2013

The elimination of poverty will just have to wait

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(First published in The Dominion Post , May 17.) THE TEAM of Key and English may go down as one of the more effective political partne...
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Saturday, May 11, 2013

Confessions of a dinosaur

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , May 8.) My wife reckons that if I had been alive in 1893, I probably wou...
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Saturday, May 4, 2013

Tiny Tinui paid a high price for patriotism

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(First published in The Dominion Post , May 3.) SHORT OF Gallipoli itself, or perhaps the famous Menin Gate in  Ypres, there can be n...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

George Jones takes his final bow

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George Jones, the country singer Gram Parsons called the king of broken hearts, has died, aged 81. He lived far longer than anyone could h...
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Not an easy woman to like

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , April 24.) LIKE a lot of people, I’ve been thinking lately about Margaret ...
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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, 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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