Karl du Fresne

Friday, August 30, 2013

What a lily-white lot we are

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , August 28.) It received very little coverage in the New Zealand media, but...
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Monday, August 26, 2013

The river of filth

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(First published in The Dominion Post, August 23.) YOU MAY not have heard of the veteran British actor Steven Berkoff. He hasn’t had a...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

New admissions to the judicial hall of fame

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , August 14.) When I was a novice reporter in Wellington, my duties includi...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Molesworth Street revisited

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(First published in The Dominion Post , August 9.) IT’S NO exaggeration to say that for some of my generation, the 1981 Springbok tour w...
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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Hold the front page!

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Stop the presses! Old people more likely to die! This from an Agence France-Presse report in today's Dominion Post: In 2011, those a...
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Friday, August 2, 2013

The new generation of Windsors

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , July 31.) You don’t have to be an ardent royal watcher (I’m not) to have ...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

We don't know how lucky we are

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(First published in The Dominion Post , July 26.) PERHAPS OUR politicians aren’t such a bad lot after all. Consider the following. Br...
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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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