The Flag

As some may know the New Zealand flag owes much to it's colonial history:


and is also rather like that of Australia:


There are moves afoot to change the flag and efforts to collect 300,000 signatures to force a referendum. Some of the possible designs are shown here.

The flag is used more like the British one as a decoration for official buildings rather than the American habit of flying it everywhere. Especially as the silver fern on black or Kiwi bird motif are also used as national symbols. So the argument on a possible new flag is not exactly heated!