Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand
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| Patron | Keri Hulme (Since 1996) |
| Founded | March 4, 1994 (Incorporated 17 February 1995) |
| Headquarters | New Zealand |
| Ideology | Republicanism in New Zealand |
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New Zealand Republic Inc. is an organisation formed in 1994 whose object is to support the creation of a New Zealand republic.
The campaign chair is Savage, a west Auckland writer and painter. The patron of the New Zealand Republic is Keri Hulme, a New Zealand writer who won the 1985 Booker Prize for her novel The Bone People. The organisation is not aligned to any political party in New Zealand including the Republic of New Zealand Party.
New Zealand Republic's constitution specifies the following aims and principles:
Creating a republic does not require a codified constitution or any change to the Treaty of Waitangi,Flag of New Zealand or Commonwealth membership.
The organisation was formed in March 1994 and incorporated in February 1995, following then National Party Prime Minister Jim Bolger's call for New Zealand to become a republic. Its membership was drawn from many political quarters (including journalist Jonathan Milne and New Zealand First Member of Parliament Deborah Morris), and called the Republican Coalition of New Zealand. Some of the group's members had been involved in the successful campaign of the Electoral Reform Coalition for electoral reform at a referendum in 1993. In 1996, writer Keri Hulme became patron of the group.
The group changed its name in 1999, coinciding with an unsuccessful Australian referendum on the same issue, to the Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand (Aotearoa is a Māori name for New Zealand), and again in 2014 to New Zealand Republic.
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