Legal expert says it's 'not actually that important'
A prominent law historian has questioned just how much "baggage" the soon-to-be-former name of Wellington's biggest newspaper, The Dominion Post, really carries.
Owner Stuff announced last week the paper would soon be known simply as The Post - because - in editor Caitlin Cherry's words, New Zealand was "under no one's dominion".
"New Zealand's status as a dominion ended in 1945 when we joined the United Nations," Cherry - who only took on the job in February - said. "It's time for the word to go."
But is that really the case? And does it matter?
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