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Flagging interest

Given the choice, the Kiwis may end up preferring the Union Jack after all

19 March 2016

9:00 AM

19 March 2016

9:00 AM

Prime Minister John Key of New Zealand wants a new flag. What to do? What to do? What to do? Did he stitch up the public and suggest a conscience vote in Parliament, despite not having signalled this before the election in the party’s manifesto? No! (Note, however, that that hypothetical ‘end run around the voters’ option would be an exact parallel to what some in the Liberal Party here in Australia have been pushing as regards the issue of same sex marriage – ‘we don’t need to signal this would be a conscience vote before the election we can...

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