Fiji is more constitutionally democratic than NZ or, in practice Australia
by Max Wallace, WRITING FOR LA RAISON MAGAZINE
It is paradoxical that Fiji is more constitutionally democratic than New Zealand. (or Australia)
Firstly, what I mean is that no New Zealand-born citizen can hold the office of head of state. That status and power is retained in New Zealand by the hereditary British monarch who is simultaneously the Supreme Governor of the Church of England in England.
Fiji, by contrast, has a citizen as head of state, the president, appointed by the Parliament.