Essays

In my time as a writer I’ve published essays in the New Zealand news media, some of which became truly notorious! In 2016, national online newspaper stuff.co.nz published my now-infamous three-part opinion piece on some problematic aspects of life in New Zealand. The series made such a splash that Stuff published an additional article discussing reader responses and another in which readers responded to my assertions of sexism in rural New Zealand.

Part 1: New Zealand is no paradise, it is brutal

In all of the places I’ve stumbled through in a peripatetic decade, people of all nationalities, colours and creeds have been eager to tell me that New Zealand is paradise. I'm not so sure.

Part 2: New Zealand is no paradise, is it the most sexist place on earth?

Small-town New Zealand is one of the most misogynistic cultures I’ve ever seen – and I’ve lived in Saudi Arabia.

Part 3: New Zealand is no paradise: Rugby, racism and homophobia

Racism and homophobia have long been part of New Zealand’s rugby culture.

Readers react to Katherine Dolan critiqing New Zealand

Sexist? Not us, say those living in rural New Zealand

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Katherine Dolan

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Essays

Part 1: New Zealand is no paradise, it is brutal

Part 2: New Zealand is no paradise, is it the most sexist place on earth?

Part 3: New Zealand is no paradise: Rugby, racism and homophobia

Readers react to Katherine Dolan critiqing New Zealand

Sexist? Not us, say those living in rural New Zealand

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