Referendums are a pretty hot topic at the moment ...
We've got one coming up next year about cannabis ... and depending on who you believe, New Zealand First MIGHT be insisting on one to green-light abortion reform.
But why do we have referendums for SOME issues and not others? And what's the point in them when we elect public officials to make these sorts of decisions?
Professor Andrew Geddis is a professor of Public Law at Otago University and joins us to talk it over
'Black, White and Blue Silver Fern' will be put against New Zealand's existing flag in the second referendum. Photo: Supplied
