| You're sweet as mate, we're used to it eh. Hell, it's why one of our former PMs had a referendum to try to replace our flag. He got seated under an Aussie flag once at an international big important meeting, thus he decided to spend $21 million getting people to vote on whether or not to adopt a flag that looked like the logo a meat company would stick on a frozen leg of lamb being exported to the EU [0]. We ultimately voted against the meat wrapper. My personal preference was for either the Black Jack [1] (because I loved how it co-opted the Union Jack with Māori design elements - the curved white koru) and tbh, we do love the colour black, or... ...Seeing as we're having a bit of a silly referendum anyway, good ol Laser Kiwi [2] (the white feather thing is the silver fern/ponga, adopted as our national plant when pteridomania was running rampant in the British Empire, and is often used as a logo for national sports teams, and for naming several female sports teams - Silver Ferns, White Ferns, Black Ferns), because who doesn't love the idea of shooting lasers out of your eyes? John Oliver had a lot of fun with the whole debate. [3] Oh, and fun fact, I believe during the anti-ICE protests, some Minnesotans were inspired by Laser Kiwi and brought about Laser Loon. [4] ---- [0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/NZ... [1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/NZ_flag_... [2]: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/sites/default/files/styles/wide/pu... [3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_2tL--HMIo [4]: https://images.thespinoff.co.nz/1/2026/02/Tinas-FeatureImage... |
