Karl du Fresne

Friday, September 23, 2016

Being sincerely motivated doesn't make it right

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(First published in the Manawatu Standard and Nelson Mail , September 21). The International Film Festival has done the rounds of the ...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

Men behaving badly

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(First published in the Dominion Post , September 16.) I’ve never cared much for David Cunliffe, but I felt some sympathy for him back ...
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Friday, September 9, 2016

The futile quest to identify pop music's greatest year

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(First published in the Manawatu Standard and Nelson Mail , September 7.) There seems to be some sort of contest underway to determine...
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Monday, September 5, 2016

The angels who looked after my brother

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(First published in The Dominion Post , September 2.) The world recently watched as exceptional people did extraordinary things at the ...
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Friday, September 2, 2016

Bradford's memory lapse

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Sue Bradford was on Radio NZ's Morning Report today lamenting the fact that New Zealand had no left-wing think tanks. Has she forgotte...
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

The lingering consquences of idealistic 60s liberalism

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(First published in The Dominion Post , August 19. My generation has a lot to answer for. Recreational drugs, for example – or as forme...
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Saturday, August 13, 2016

The chugger on my doorstep

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(First published in the Manawatu Standard and Nelson Mail , August 10.) I was working at home the other day when there was a confident...
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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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