{"id":1534,"date":"2014-10-29T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2023-08-29T22:16:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:16:52","slug":"fast-progress-on-nz-flag-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"Fast Progress on NZ Flag Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Zealand PM, John Key, announces there will be&nbsp;two binding POSTAL&nbsp;referendums (voting is not compulsory)&nbsp;on the new flag minus the Union Jack.&nbsp;The first one is to be held at&nbsp;the end of 2015 to choose&nbsp;a preferred design from among those selected by a panel of &#8220;respected&nbsp;New Zealanders&#8221;.&nbsp; Hopefully, there will be some artists among them.&nbsp;The second vote&nbsp;will be held in early 2016 as a contest between the design winner from the first referendum and the&nbsp;current&nbsp;flag.&nbsp;All political parties&nbsp;will have&nbsp;one representative on the committee overseeing the process. NZ&#8217;s first flag was chosen by an assembly of Maori chiefs in 1834. [&#8220;Clashing with the sunset&#8221;, The Economist,1 November 2014\/ABC News online 28 October 2014].&nbsp;NZ even published the Cabinet papers (see link below).&nbsp;WfaAR is&nbsp;astounded. This is the way to get change, Australia please note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beehive.govt.nz\/release\/first-steps-taken-towards-flag-referendum\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand PM, John Key, announces there will be&nbsp;two binding POSTAL&nbsp;referendums (voting is not compulsory)&nbsp;on the new flag minus the Union Jack.&nbsp;The first one is to be held at&nbsp;the end of 2015 to choose&nbsp;a preferred design from among those selected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}