NEW ZEALAND FLAG INSTITUTE PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AUCKLAND 1 NOVEMBER 2004

New Zealand Flag Day to be marked more widely in 2005

The New Zealand Flag is now into its 136th year. The anniversary of the flag on 23 October was marked for the first time this year during a number of special functions.

The New Zealand Flag Institute calls upon New Zealander's to make Flag Day an annual celebration.

The New Zealand Flag Institute invites all New Zealander's to join together in celebrating our foremost national symbol. Our flag is a unifying force, and Flag Day should be an annual opportunity to focus on national pride.

New Zealand Flag Institute
Email: nzflaginstitute@yahoo.co.nz

Website: http://geocities.com/nzflaginstitute/

© Scoop Media

Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>