{"id":396,"date":"1999-08-16T20:16:00","date_gmt":"1999-08-16T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=396"},"modified":"2023-08-31T21:49:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:49:30","slug":"16-august-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"16 August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Zealanders are warming to the idea of becoming a republic after a survey showed that support for a republic had doubled to 34 percent over the last 10 years, leading to the prediction that NZ would follow Australia&#8217;s example and put the issue to the vote. Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley said she did not believe any change was imminent, &#8220;It is rarely raised with me,&#8221; she said. The same study found that New Zealanders have grown so disillusioned with government that many favour the country being run by a board of directors, a team of experts or even by a strong leader who could ignore a squabbling and indecisive parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealanders are warming to the idea of becoming a republic after a survey showed that support for a republic had doubled to 34 percent over the last 10 years, leading to the prediction that NZ would follow Australia&#8217;s example&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7","wpcat-7-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","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=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}