{"id":24629,"date":"2014-03-11T07:51:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T11:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24629"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:10:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T17:10:46","slug":"new-zealand-considering-changing-the-national-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/11\/new-zealand-considering-changing-the-national-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand considering changing the national flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current PM&#8217;s choice would be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-26524132\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">silver fern on a black field<\/a>, which is the symbol used by the national sports teams, especially the All Blacks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/New-Zealand-flag-320px.png\" alt=\"New Zealand flag 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/New-Zealand-flag-320px.png 320w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/New-Zealand-flag-320px-150x75.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>New Zealand is to hold a referendum on whether to change the national flag, Prime Minister John Key has announced.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Key, who on Monday called an election for 20 September, said the vote would be held within three years.<\/p>\n<p>The current flag shows the Southern Cross constellation and includes the Union Jack &#8211; the UK&#8217;s national flag &#8211; in one corner.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Key said the flag represented a period of history from which New Zealand had moved on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s my belief&#8230; that the design of the New Zealand flag symbolises a colonial and post-colonial era whose time has passed,&#8221; he said in a speech at Victoria University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Silver_fern_flag.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/New-Zealand-All-Black-Silver-Fern-flag-324px.png\" alt=\"New Zealand All Black Silver Fern flag 324px\" style=\"float:left; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px\" width=\"324\" height=\"216\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/New-Zealand-All-Black-Silver-Fern-flag-324px.png 324w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/New-Zealand-All-Black-Silver-Fern-flag-324px-150x100.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The flag remains dominated by the Union Jack in a way that we ourselves are no longer dominated by the United Kingdom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am proposing that we take one more step in the evolution of modern New Zealand by acknowledging our independence through a new flag.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Key said that he liked the silver fern &mdash; popularised by national teams including the All Blacks &mdash; as an option, saying efforts by New Zealand&#8217;s athletes gave &#8220;the silver fern on a black background a distinctive and uniquely New Zealand identity&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current PM&#8217;s choice would be the silver fern on a black field, which is the symbol used by the national sports teams, especially the All Blacks: New Zealand is to hold a referendum on whether to change the national flag, Prime Minister John Key has announced. Mr Key, who on Monday called an election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[683],"tags":[301,1423],"class_list":["post-24629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-newzealand","tag-vexillology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6pf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66415,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24629\/revisions\/66415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}