Karl du Fresne

Friday, November 30, 2018

Identity politics and the Pride Parade

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(First published in The Dominion Post and on Stuff.co.nz , November 29.) There was something strangely familiar about the spectacle of...
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Thursday, November 29, 2018

Pike River: a lot of ifs, buts and maybes

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(First published in Stuff regional papers and on Stuff.co.nz , November 28.) This might seem an insensitive question, but it needs to b...
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Monday, November 19, 2018

Ian Grant's history of NZ newspapers

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(First published in The Dominion Post and on Stuff.co.nz. , November 15.) It’s odd, when the print media are fighting for survival, t...
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Saturday, November 17, 2018

When TV drama is used to promote messages of diversity and inclusivity

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(First published in Stuff regional papers and on Stuff.co.nz , November 14.) In the opening episode of Bodyguard , a BBC drama series sc...
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Monday, November 5, 2018

Someone wanted a link, so here it is

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The Dominion Post today published a response by abortion activist Terry Bellamak to my column of last Thursday. In the online comments se...
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Friday, November 2, 2018

Expect to hear this Big Lie repeated endlessly

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(First published in The Dominion Post and on Stuff.co.nz , November 1.) On Radio New Zealand recently, Kim Hill interviewed an Irish p...
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Thursday, November 1, 2018

The Canberra elite's visceral loathing for Pauline Hanson

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(First published in Stuff regional papers and on Stuff.co.nz , October 31.) I first wrote about Pauline Hanson in 1997. She was then a...
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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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