Karl du Fresne

Sunday, October 30, 2022

Why the culture wars are being lost by default

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We have a moral problem in this country. Not to put too fine a point on it, it’s a cowardice problem. One of the reasons the other side is...
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Saturday, October 29, 2022

Jerry Lee Lewis: last of the original rock and rollers

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  This is where it all began: the church in the Mississippi Delta town of Ferriday, Louisiana, where Jerry Lee Lewis - who has died aged 87 ...
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Friday, October 28, 2022

The problem with Luxon

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Three days ago I heard Christopher Luxon being interviewed by Mani Dunlop on Morning Report . It was profoundly depressing. Dunlop introd...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

How the word misogyny has been twisted to suit woke ideology

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Misogyny is one of those words, like homophobia and racism, whose meaning has been stretched to the point where its misuse is now routine. ...
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Saturday, October 22, 2022

Pahiatua is where it always was, despite what the Dominion Post says

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It will have come as a revelation to readers of the Dominion Post to learn today that Pahiatua is in the Manawatu-Whanganui region. But the...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

What history tells us about long-distance passenger trains

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My Sydney-domiciled friend and former colleague Robin Bromby, a lifetime railways enthusiast, co-founder of Rails magazine and author of New...
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More desperate floundering at Stuff

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Is Stuff stuffed? That’s a question that will inevitably be asked after the announcement of a restructuring that a rival media outlet predic...
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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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