Karl du Fresne

Friday, July 31, 2015

So much for the Licensed Building Practitioner scheme ...

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , July 29.) The house I live in was built in 1916. My wife and I plan a party...
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Monday, July 27, 2015

Investigative 'journalist'? I don't think so

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(First published in The Dominion Post , July 24.) Nicky Hager’s lawyer helpfully explained to Justice Denis Clifford in the High Court la...
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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Savaged by goldfish - again

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As I fully expected, I came under attack yesterday from some of my fellow journalists over my criticism of Nicky Hager’s claim to be an in...
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Monday, July 20, 2015

The New Puritans and their vision of Utopia

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , July 15.) New Zealanders are under siege, bombarded almost weekly with warn...
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Sunday, July 12, 2015

Sledging: just one of the things that makes us different from Australia

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(First published in The Dominion Post , July 10). I wonder if the time has come to abandon the myth that New Zealanders and Australian...
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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Honouring those gentle, benign stingrays

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , July 1). I read recently that the New Zealand Geographic Board proposes to...
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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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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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