A very spirited group of people in New Zealand have been pushing for a
new flag. In our humble opinion, a new flag is long overdue, and here’s
why:
To the uninitiated, the flag of New Zealand is practically
indistinguishable from the Australian flag. I met someone recently from
New Zealand and I can tell you that New Zealanders really don’t want to
be thought of as an Australian colony.
Unfortunately, if the following news item is accurate, it looks like
the efforts to change the flag aren’t going to bear fruit any time soon. You can visit the site: nzflag.com to find out what all this is about, plus pictures of what the new flag might look like.
NZ flag petition falls short [APN Holdings NZ Ltd]
The organisers of a petition to change the New Zealand flag have all
but abandoned hopes of forcing a referendum on the issue this year.
NZflag.com Trust spokeswoman Jo Coughlan said the campaigners had hoped
to collect 300,000 signatures by May but had fewer than 100,000.
She said they were still on track to collect 300,000 by their deadline of the end of December.