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He has a lot to say about becoming a republic. He doesn't overstate his affiliation to the group, but he’s keen to speak out nevertheless. Hamilton is on the executive of the New Zealand Republic. “Her family is all very photogenic and very nice, with some oddities like Andrew, but the fact that this family should represent New Zealand internationally and domestically is very odd in this current state of New Zealand’s own progress and development as an independent sovereign nation confident in itself.” His republican views make up just one chapter of the book – the title of which refers in part to his grandmother’s nickname for him, but are the biggest talking point. In his memoir, New Moons For Sam, Becoming Kiwi – Life of a New Zealand Diplomat, published on October 15, Hamilton meanders through his life, from a childhood lived in the bucolic pastures of England to his family’s immigration to New Zealand and a career indulging his wanderlust as a diplomat. Hamilton, former deputy secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and a retired diplomat, has spent his entire career being the voice of his government. He says it’s rather freeing to be able to promote his pro-republican views. New Zealand monarchists will be choking on their Darjeeling at Hamilton’s ideas for the future of Aotearoa as a republic. * New Zealand needs its own head of state * As republic debate reignites, what would it take for NZ to go it alone? * Monarchy or republic? The debate for NZ's head of state rages on