Karl du Fresne

Saturday, February 26, 2022

Why the woke Left is so rattled by Camp Freedom

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[A technical glitch occurred with the original version of this post and I had to take it down. This version is the same except that it no lo...
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Friday, February 25, 2022

Jim Hartley, journalist

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Dear me. It was never my intention - still less my wish - that this blog become a Roll of Honour, but that’s the way it seems just now. I le...
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Thursday, February 24, 2022

The unstoppable Brian Lambert

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I was saddened this morning by the news that Brian Lambert, cyclist extraordinaire, had died in Masterton Hospital. Brian was one of the mos...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Not a bad team

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  I've been searching for a photo of my old friend and colleague Barrie Watts, whom I obituarised here , and I finally came across this ...
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Dial an abortion

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New Zealand women will soon be able to procure an abortion simply by lifting the phone, and the taxpayer will obligingly pick up the tab. ...
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Monday, February 21, 2022

Sterile video is no substitute for flesh-and-blood court proceedings

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Today the Supreme Court in Wellington continues hearing the Free Speech Union’s appeal arising from the controversial banning of Canadian sp...
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Saturday, February 19, 2022

How to Protest Properly

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We support the right to protest, but and the But is important, It can’t be any sort of protest, You should not have any persons disapprove...
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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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