Why nz should become a republic

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Kiro will take over the role in October from Dame Patsy Reddy, who will have reached the end of her five-year term. When she was asked by Ardern to consider the Governor-General role, she said it was a "shock", sending her back "slumped" into her chair.

To do otherwise would be considered to be inconsistent with the honour of the Crown. This process is a unique example of the Crown in Parliament. New Zealand would need a new language of statehood to differentiate between different facets such as the state, nation, community, and the government of the day.

We would need to adopt new terms to reflect a post-colonial constitutional settlement and relationships. Within settlement legislation itself, the Crown sometimes stands for the historical imperial Crown and sometimes for settler governments. It is the Crown who apologies and the Crown who is treated as culpable.

This transmogrifying Crown, survives constitutional and electoral changes. It is Ministers who take action — but the government of the day tends to be distanced from historic wrong-doing. Many of these expectations have continued to the present day.