Karl du Fresne

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

I missed one

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Exhibit C (see previous post): Greta Thunberg and the attendant media circus.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Peak craziness reconsidered

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I wrote a column a few weeks ago suggesting we had reached peak craziness. Alas, I was wrong. Exhibit A: One morning last week I heard...
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Monday, September 23, 2019

Obituary: Alister Taylor

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(The Dominion Post asked me to write this obituary. It was published on September 21.) RUPERT ALISTER HALLS TAYLOR Publisher Born B...
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Friday, September 20, 2019

It's way past time to reclaim and honour our history

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(First published in The Dominion Post and on Stuff.co.nz , September 19.) I remember almost nothing of the history I learned at seconda...
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The buzz and bitchiness of local government politics

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(First published in The Manawatu Standard and on Stuff.co.nz , September 18). I switched on Radio New Zealand’s Morning Report one day...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

It now falls to private citizens to defend free speech

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(This column was published in The Dominion Post and on Stuff.co.nz on September 5. I omitted to put it on my blog at the time but I'm...
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Friday, September 13, 2019

Quote of the day

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On Morning Report , from a Piha resident complaining about the lack of action to remedy local pollution: “When all is said and done, a lot...
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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 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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