Karl du Fresne

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Important update on Judge Callinicos

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David Farrar of Kiwiblog has read Judge Callinicos's judgment in the Moana case and covers it fully here . I recommend readers of this b...
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Tuesday, October 5, 2021

More on the gang-up against Judge Peter Callinicos

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What began as a controversy over a judge’s decision to leave a young Maori girl in the care of her Pakeha foster-parents has touched off an ...
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Monday, October 4, 2021

Another story for the media to ignore?

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The feminist group Speak Up For Women has analysed public submissions to Parliament on the Bill that would allow transgender people to self-...
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Friday, October 1, 2021

It seems to be open season on Judge Callinicos

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There have been significant developments in the case of Moana (not her real name), the Maori girl whom Oranga Tamariki wanted removed from h...
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Thursday, September 30, 2021

Mental health gets the standard Labour treatment

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Labour governments typically have two standard responses to a political problem, or even the mere perception of one. They either throw vast ...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2021

The media's calculated insult to public opinion

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How much longer will the political and media elites persist with their extraordinary arrogance in referring to New Zealand as Aotearoa? We...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2021

John Key's less than glorious re-entry into the political arena

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If you wanted a measure of how dire things have become in God’s Own Country, the weekend provided it. John Key wrote a comment piece attac...
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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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