New Zealand has voted to keep its current ... of the nation’s colonial past and too similar to Australia’s flag, but the alternative design failed to gain the momentum it needed to win.

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 has voted to keep its current flag, rejecting an alternative design that was selected following a 10-month process. In a two-part referendum concluded on Thursday, 57 percent of voters ...

New Zealand has unveiled four new flag designs, one of which will be ... a postal referendum between Nov. 20 and Dec. 11. With an alternative chosen, New Zealanders will then be asked whether ...

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 ...

New Zealand is inching closer to a new flag. Last year, Prime Minister John Key invited New Zealanders to design alternate flags that could replace the current design, which includes a Union Jack ...

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 ...

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 government of New Zealand presented a long list of forty alternative flag designs, which will be competing to become the new banner of the country. In the first binding referendum, eligible ...

The government of New Zealand today published a list of ... when voters will decide between their current flag and the alternative design. The panel will also conduct an extensive review of ...

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 ...

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