Younger New Zealanders strongly support a New Zealand citizen as our next head of state, but older New Zealanders support the monarchy.
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Free trade and a "shared head of state"
At the outset New Zealand’s free trade agreement negotiation with the United Kingdom, we were told that having a "shared head of state" would help get an agreement in place. Recent reports on the negotiations indicate that that clearly isn't the case - the British monarchy does nothing for us in terms of trade, military links or anything of any practical use, really. It has no benefits to New Zealand.