Factory workers hang new designs of the national flag of New Zealand at a factory in Auckland, New Zealand, November 24, 2015. The above design has been chosen as the alternative in an initial ...

New Zealand sometimes comes under the shadow ... But even then, changing the flag is by no means a certainty. After a favorite alternative flag is chosen, it will be pitted head-to-head with ...

Residents of New Zealand proposed 10,292 alternative flag designs as of mid-2015. A panel then narrowed it down to a handful of choices, and the nation picked its favorite. Sponsor Message Now ...

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND — New Zealanders know what their new potential national flag will look like, except that they’re not quite set on the colour. In a postal ballot, New Zealanders chose ...

One of four designs could be New Zealand’s new flag – if Kiwis accept any of ... when the leaves actually alternate along the stem. But perhaps the most anguish was expressed at the defeat ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand has voted ... John Burrows, a law professor who led a panel who chose a shortlist of alternative flag designs, said the process had been challenging ...

New Zealand has confirmed its preferred alternative flag after the first referendum resulted in a tight race between two ferns. Silver Fern (Black, White and Blue) was confirmed as the official ...

New Zealand commentators agree that an alternative must be identified before any vote is held on ditching the current flag, which has been fluttering over Auckland for 145 years. “In my view ...

The alternative flag to the current New Zealand flag flutters outside a hotel in Wellington. Mr Key, wearing the alternative silver fern design on his lapel, said he wouldn’t take the result ...

It reignited long-running debates over artistic expression, national symbols and the country’s colonial history.