Karl du Fresne

Thursday, December 2, 2021

The hit jobs on Luxon came even sooner than I expected

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I’m not in the habit of saying I told you so, but … I told you so. In an article I wrote for the BFD last week and republished on this bl...
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Saturday, November 27, 2021

The worst of all possible worlds

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The following column was first published on The BFD . It has since had a small amount of new material added. We’re all familiar with the p...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Don't mention the war

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The most obvious question was the one Susie Ferguson didn’t ask during an interview on Morning Report this morning about the Crown’s settle...
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Monday, November 22, 2021

Robin Bromby looks in the rear-vision mirror

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Robin Bromby was the chief  reporter of The Dominion when I worked there as a very green young journalist in 1969-71. Robin, who remains act...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2021

No one should be surprised by a backlash against the news media

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One of the least surprising things I’ve read lately is that journalists have been getting a hard time from protesters. I mean, who’d have th...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Alranz: the radical fringe group that purports to speak for New Zealand women

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There has been a changing of the guard at Alranz (the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand), the organisation formed in 1970 to lo...
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Bob Brockie on matauranga and the fraud we call postmodernism

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Today I'm honoured to publish a guest post by the redoubtable Dr Bob Brockie - scientist, sceptic and long-time cartoonist for The Natio...
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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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