Archive - Mar 2013

Date

March 31st

Post-Treaty Settlements

Submitted by LJ Holden on 30 March, 2013 - 16:11

Post Treaty-Settlements is a fascinating website. It's a collection of essays about what New Zealand could look like after the Treaty settlement process is concluded. The tentative date for that is set for 2014.

March 24th

David Farrar on Fiji's draft constitution

Submitted by LJ Holden on 24 March, 2013 - 08:54

David Farrar has a copy of the proposed draft Fijian constitution. While the process for bringing about the new constitution was anything but democratic, it contains a number of interesting points worth debate.

March 23rd

"Constitutional reform or expedient pick ‘n’ mix?"

Submitted by LJ Holden on 23 March, 2013 - 09:15

Law firm Russell McVeigh writes on the constitutional review:

March 17th

Succession: what if there's a lesbian Queen? (or a gay King)?

Submitted by LJ Holden on 17 March, 2013 - 10:46

The UK's House of Lords is debating the Succession to the Crown Bill. One of the Conservative Lords Spiritual and Temporal has raised the issue of David Cameron's same-sex marriage legislation affecting the succession.

March 16th

Teina Pora and the Royal Perogative of Mercy

Submitted by Savage on 16 March, 2013 - 09:42

Advocates for Teina Pora including the brother of Susan Burdett, the woman he was convicted of murdering, are supporting another application for the Royal Perogative of Mercy.

March 13th

Former Commonwealth Secretary-General on Commonwealth's challenges

Submitted by LJ Holden on 12 March, 2013 - 20:17

Most New Zealanders will remember Don McKinnon as our minister of foreign affairs during the 1990s.

March 12th

Response to Nikki Pender

Submitted by LJ Holden on 11 March, 2013 - 19:42
David Farrar kindly published my response to Nikki Pender on Kiwiblog today:

March 7th

Jamaica: "It’s for Jamaicans to decide"

Submitted by LJ Holden on 7 March, 2013 - 07:49

The Jamaica Observer reports the Jamaican prime minister has rejected suggestions by an adviser to the British prime minister that Jamaica must keep the monarchy, arguing it is for Jamaicans to decide:


Monarchy 'ineffective' in NZ

Submitted by Savage on 6 March, 2013 - 11:47

From Stuff, published on 5 March 2013:

Irrespective of how many like the monarchy, we need to move to an elected head of state.

March 5th

Keith Locke on the Royal Succession Bill

Submitted by LJ Holden on 4 March, 2013 - 20:50

Over at The Daily Blog, Keith Locke writes:

March 3rd

New life member: Dave Guerin

Submitted by LJ Holden on 2 March, 2013 - 21:28

Dave Guerin.

Dave Guerin is our latest life member. Dave was president of the Republican Movement 1996 - 2006. Yesterday I presented Dave with his life membership certificate (after a few months wait, sorry Dave!). Onya!