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Frank Greenall
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Frank Greenall is a Whanganui-based writer.
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Frank Greenall: Life can also be fun and fancy-free. But not too much at the moment.
The reliance on mountains of consumerist gimcrackery beggars belief.
Frank Greenall: There's a much bigger bogeyman than coronavirus at large.
Meth and synthetics have become national scourges, leading to family breakdowns.
Malaria alone continues to wipe out about 400,000 humans per year.
Admire him, or be flabbergasted he reckons he's still got enough gas in the tank.
COMMENT: The battle scars are starting to show. Maybe it's time Peters stretched back.
It's great to be a Kiwi after the Tooth Fairy has waved her wand in the Year of Delivery.
Now we have the plight of the "working poor" where even double incomes aren't enough.
Be scared. Malevolent aliens are already here. They're us.
A young Frenchwoman also took up a noble cause.
Beware of what you wish for – you may rue it ever came true.
The smartphone's more than just an enabler. It's now also an intensifier.
If a popularity poll is indicative of voter priorities the planet's well and truly rooted.
There have always been and will always be a gazillion issues happening at any one moment.
"Public service" broadcasting is hard to define, but most people know it when they see it.
Get out before Vulcan wakes up and hammers Auckland property values once and for all.
The Industrial Revolution was a game plan that gave us the power to trash the planet.
Economists worth their salt, argues Frank Greenall, are few and far between
12 months out from the election National cranks up the hoary old spectre of the gangs.
Comment: Why does success or loss on the field have such an effect on the nation's mood?
Did the All Blacks really lose to England? Or was it fake news?
Are our politicians in fantasy land? And will there be a fairytale ending to it all?
A totally trashed Iraq still bears chilling witness to the damage a loose cannon can do.
Cliches become cliches because they often contain basic truths.
Frank Greenall discovers nails are the new boom industry in Whanganui
Comment: Not for the first time, hard-working farmers are feeling hard done by ...
The open waters of Cook Strait beckoned. What could possibly go wrong?
KiwiBuild housing was affordable only if you had access to a six figure income.
Commentator Frank Greenall's take on the local body elections.
Comment: I think it's time this lingering miscarriage of justice was just kicked to touch.
Woodstock - If you can remember it, you weren't there, as the saying goes.
Frank Greenall reflects on those few degrees of separation that bind us all.
Sleepyhead's plan for workers is admirable; hopefully it will inspire other businesses.
Captain James Cook would probably be embarrassed by the attention we still accord him.
It wouldn't surprise me if we didn't soon also have a Ministry of Working Groups.
It's false language used to describe false economics, but most don't see any dichotomy.
The idea was for a sufficiently diverted public to forget to blame those responsible.
Israel's no slouch in reminding those what certain fate awaits them
Frank Greenall sees an bit of Basil Fawlty in politics
Aftermath of the mosque massacres exposed an elephant in the room, says Frank Greenall.
The horrors of the Christchurch mosque massacres continue to ripple.
Comment: Legislation stupidly made mass murder weapons available, and now we've paid price
Last week we hosted a wandering economist, Cameron Bagrie
Full credit to a SWAT team and Robert Muldoon for trying to find innovative solutions.
Frank Greenall on the Tax Working Group and Capital Gains Tax.
Winston Churchill, were he still alive, would be a rampant Brexit Remainer.
Could New Zealanders ever do the Wilde thing and lay off slaughtering animals?
Djokovic, Nadal and others play on in the shadow of the Australian superstar of the 1960s.
The receding tide of former imperial glory has long been slipping out, seemingly unnoticed
NZ's first rock 'n' roll star Johnny Devlin (from Whanganui!) wowed the kids in the '50s.
Larry's nemesis is a feline who hangs out further down Downing St at the Foreign Office.
In this brainless clash of imperial hubris, colonial troops were expedient cannon fodder
Frank Greenall on the Apec conference in Papua New Guinea.
How come we've got nearly half our fuel needs in our own back yard but we don't use it?
Perhaps art visits us daily in the guise of reality TV with all its vacuous grotesquery.
What's lacking is simply the political will to address causes that are already known.
Such is the arcane terrain of the postmodern, deconstructivist art world.
The Terror was particularly well preserved, even down to intact cans of preserved food.
Inevitable crash will be painful but houses may be homes again, not investors casino chips
Economic commentators are conflating what is better termed economic "churn" with growth.
The nation's colourful yet sorry history is literally centred on seabird droppings.
Beehive thefts and Beehive leaks have been keeping police busy lately.
Flying Spaghetti Monster devotees reject "crazy nonsense" while enjoying life.
'Oh, no ... we've got another business confidence survey to do.'
Some may be unaware the capital is in commuter meltdown mode, writes Frank Greenall.
Peters' competing thoughts periodically jam his gears, and his coherency loses traction.
The word "gang" has several connotations, but not all definitions are necessarily criminal
Frank Greenall on the relationship between Trump and Putin
Awfulness in the underworld as World Cup melodrama plays out.
Something's rotten when someone works a full week and still has to rely on food parcels.
Research challenges long-held theories and beliefs about the ancient world.
For legions of refugees on the run from slaughter, it's raining every day.
There is evidence that rumours of an insidious North Korean shrink-ray may be true.
Too many cows? Will the M. bovis disease have a silver lining?
Frank Greenall looks at our prison system.
Regular columnist Frank Greenall discuss the debt predator
Jacinda, you've got a nice smile, But for the next couple of years I don't want to see it.
Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize should be Red Velvet, South Korea's popular girl band.