Flag Vote Begins

                 Union jack, or silver fern? Keep the flag or change it?
New Zealand citizens are thinking of changing their flag which will cost 26 million dollars.
The prime minster John Key wants to change the flag to Kyle Lockwood's silver fern design therefore we will be having another referendum. All around New Zealand people will send their vote and choose between the new or the old one. Voting papers arrived on Thursday morning last week, the voting will close on 24th of March and the result will be announced on the 30th of March. The
reason why this referendum is happening is because some people think our flag doesn't really represent us anymore, so John Key decided to have a referendum.
My opinion is that we should change our flag to the new design. 

Reported By Rajpreet

New Zealand Flag Consideration Debate

Lately, as you may or may not know there has been an on going nation- wide discussion in New Zealand about the New Zealand Flag Consideration Project. This project started when some people decided that they wanted to consider changing our current flag. You're probably wondering how this will work , well, over the rest of the year and next year, there will be 2 referendums, the first one, which will be held in 2015 will be when NZ citizens vote for their favourite new flag design out of 4 designs that have been selected by a special flag consideration panel. The second one, (2016) will decide if NZ votes to keep the design they have pre-selected or keep our current flag. There is, however, controversy over this project as it is costing tax-payers 26 million dollars and quite a few people believe we could be doing something that is more of priority with the money like improving our health system or looking at child poverty. Take a look at the top 40 flags and see which one you like best.

 

By Leilani