Karl du Fresne

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Navigating the Kafkaesque world of Work and Income

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(First published in The Dominion Post , June 26.) One of the crowning accomplishments of technology is that it has enabled the governme...
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Saturday, June 20, 2015

Greedy baby-boomers? I'm not so sure

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , June 17.) Is there anything less edifying than a debate between generations...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Collins got it right, but received no thanks for it

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(First published in The Dominion Post , June 12.) Justice David Collins drew the short straw when he was assigned to hear Lecretia Seale...
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Saturday, June 6, 2015

It's not pretty, but it's preferable to Fifa

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , June 3.) You may have heard of “fly on the wall” filmmaking. It’s a techniq...
Monday, June 1, 2015

Some things are beyond forgiveness

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(First published in The Dominion Post , May 29.) There was a time when I didn’t quite know what to think about the Irish Republican Ar...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

Is the rock star economy actually very fragile?

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , May 20. Please note: this was published before Bill English delivered his B...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Alcohol's mystical hold on Otago University students

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(First published in The Dominion Post , May 15.) TVNZ’s Sunday programme this week included an item about student partying in Dunedin...
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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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