The final shortlist of designs for New Zealand's new national flag

[Serpo]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/08/10/14/2B3EF38700000578-3192358-image-a-1_1439215137154.jpg

Be good to get rid of the pathetic old one, which has a union jack on it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3192358/The-final-shortlist-designs-New-Zealand-s-new-national-flag-revealed-NONE-40-options-includes-Union-Jack.html

[Serpo]

Anyone see one they like the most...........here is a picture of a fern plus a punga fern unraveling.........https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcollections.tepapa.govt.nz%2Fdb_im ages%2Fobjimage.jpg%3Firn%3D268766%26width%3D300%2 6height%3D350&f=1

[Glass]

it is always 100% going to have a fern in it. The stars are pretty popular. How do the first nation think about the stars?

shame about the rugby eh? What is a shame is that I missed it. Un/fortunately Wallabys going over the All Blacks is rare enough these days it might make DVD.

[Serpo]

Its on again on saturday night in Auckland, looking forward to it...............


As long as there is no union jack on it Ill be happy, apparently our flag was designed by someone in OZ.............

[Serpo]

An international favourite, recognised as the 'Kiwi Terminator' http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/6/a/8/w/0/image.gallery.galleryLandscape.600x400.16aah3.png/1439258880360.png

[gunDriller]

Anyone see one they like the most...........here is a picture of a fern plus a punga fern unraveling.........https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcollections.tepapa.govt.nz%2Fdb_im ages%2Fobjimage.jpg%3Firn%3D268766%26width%3D300%2 6height%3D350&f=1

That would be nice, with a picture of a Tuatara, the special NZ lizard.

Also, Mt. Raepuhoo, is an AWESOME ski place.

[Serpo]

Four New Zealand flag designs revealed

Four new designs picked to contend with New Zealand's current flag are revealed on Tuesday.




New Zealand has edged closer to choosing a new national flag, with the final four options revealed on Tuesday morning at a ceremony in Wellington.
Two of the four were designed by Kiwi-born architect Kyle Lockwood, who has since settled in Melbourne.
Three of the four flags, selected by the plainly-named Flag Consideration Panel, feature the silver fern, an endemic New Zealand plant that figures largely in the country's culture.
http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/j/c/7/y/n/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gjc7ts.png/1441080532655.jpg New Zealanders will rank the four options at a referendum in November. The winner will be pitted against the current flag at a vote next year. Photo: NZ Government

The fourth option derives from the koru, a spiral shape that is itself based on an unfurling silver fern and is an important symbol in Maori art.
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The silver fern has won the imprimatur of two of New Zealand's most influential figures, Prime Minister John Key and All Blacks captain Richie McCaw (the silver fern also constitutes the All Blacks logo).
Debate has raged across the ditch since the conservative Mr Key last year announced a two-stage referendum would be held to decide on a potential new flag. More than 10,000 design ideas were submitted, from which a long list of 40 was unveiled in August.
The shortlisted four designs will be put to a vote in November. The favourite from that poll will be pitted against the incumbent NZ flag at a second referendum in March next year.
http://www.smh.com.au/cqstatic/gjc835/30silverfernblue.pnghttp://www.smh.com.au/cqstatic/gjc835/33silverfernblackwhiteblue.pnghttp://www.smh.com.au/cqstatic/gjc835/27whiteblackfern.jpghttp://www.smh.com.au/cqstatic/gjc835/24korublack.jpg
Public attitudes have been characterised by a degree of ambivalence towards the entire project. Tracy Watkins, Fairfax Media's NZ political editor, summed it up on Tuesday: "So far the flag debate hasn't even stirred enough interest to fill up a country hall."
A recent poll by The New Zealand Herald found 53 per cent of voters did not support changing the flag.
The head of the Flag Consideration Project, John Burrows, encouraged all New Zealanders to rank the final four flags at the first referendum, even if they did not ultimately support a change.
The silver fern on a blue and red background, designed by Mr Lockwood, is Mr Key's personal pick. The design also features the Kiwi version of the Southern Cross.
An online poll, which is not scientific, at Fairfax Media's NZ site stuff.co.nz, had the black, white and blue silver fern easily leading as the preferred new design. But it was still trailing the current flag which, like Australia's, contains the Union Jack.
New Zealand's Labour opposition has condemned the $NZ26 million ($23.2 million) referendum process as a "vanity project".
Immediate reaction to the shortlist on Twitter skewed toward the negative, with some New Zealanders concerned the chosen four were bland and predictable.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/final-four-new-zealand-flags-revealed-20150831-gjc7ts.html#ixzz3kTRzGkEb

[aeondaze]

What a pathetic and pointless excercise.

There's no "How about we break from the crown and form a republic?" just "Who wants a new flag, yay!"

Fricken incredible.

What a bunch of dupes the kiwis are, yeah a new flag is going to change everything, hahaha :p

[Serpo]

What a pathetic and pointless excercise.

There's no "How about we break from the crown and form a republic?" just "Who wants a new flag, yay!"

Fricken incredible.

What a bunch of dupes the kiwis are, yeah a new flag is going to change everything, hahaha :p

you have to stick with your own moron flag with the union jack ,otherwise you will be copying the kiwis.....hahahah.....

who says its going to change anything , its not going to be mistaken for the OZ fag , I mean flag.

[aeondaze]

you have to stick with your own moron flag with the union jack ,otherwise you will be copying the kiwis.....hahahah.....

who says its going to change anything , its not going to be mistaken for the OZ fag , I mean flag.

I don't give a flying fuck what flag it is, its a pointless and meaningless display.

But hey, don't let me stop you getting all worked up over a stupid piece of cloth like it is going to make some difference whilst still being "subjects" of the crown.

Fuckin morons, haha :cool:

[Serpo]

[QUOTE=aeondaze;790029]I don't give a flying fuck what flag it is, its a pointless and meaningless display.


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Obviously,so why comment at all , unless all you are interested in , is kiwi bashing.......as per normal

[aeondaze]

How about you fix up your formatting like a good girl.

It amazes me that after all this time you just don't get it...its a PUBLIC FORUM.

Thats what people do, make comment, duh!

[gunDriller]

An international favourite, recognised as the 'Kiwi Terminator' http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/6/a/8/w/0/image.gallery.galleryLandscape.600x400.16aah3.png/1439258880360.png

I have been experiencing NZ through the eyes of a neighbor and his Kiwi girlfriend & mate ... they've been together about 12 years.

They run (ran) a farm and he also runs (ran) a cabinet shop, and does (did) contract work for property managers (basically, Home Improvement on steroids ... does really good work really fast.)

And he's White.


BUT ... he came back to the States for 2 years to help his family deal with his brother's death (car accident, 2011) and the father's death.

SO ... NZ immigration told him ==> you can't come back. He had permanent residence, but being out of NZ for 2 years turned the clock back to Zero ... and now they have a new Immigration Minister, and new rules.

If you are James Cameron, then they'll let you in.

As I have learned, NZ is full of incidents like this. A German man who had built a medium size business (or businesses) in NZ. Had to leave for a legit reason. Was told, "You can't come back. And we're keeping your businesses."

Now I see NZ through the eyes of the neighbor's long term Kiwi girlfriend. The unimaginable has happened ... now she is talking about moving to the US. She is not such a fan of NZ.

I don't fully understand the culture, but I am learning that NZ is not as peaceful as their previous rejection of nuclear weapons would suggest. NZ is stepping right up to play bat-boy in the War on Terror, among other things.