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Cartoons: Refugees, Flags and What I Stand For

Thursday, 03 September 2015, 12:13 pm
Opinion: Lyndon Hood

Cartoons: Refugees, Flags and What I Stand For

Images by Lyndon Hood

Cartoon: Syrian
refugees in Europe, the New Zealand refugee quota and the
Silver Fern NZ alternative flag option

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Cartoon: Syrian
refugees in Europe, the New Zealand refugee quota, and the
Koru NZ alternative flag option

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Both these are in response to a number of local and international cartoons of the current refugee crisis (and how New Zealand's response sits with the supposed self-examination of the flag debate). But they were prompted specifically by @ksuyin's question:

Which of these four flag designs do you feel best represent our refusal to help refugees?
— Su Yin Khoo (@ksuyin) September 2, 2015

If a flag is supposed to represent our nation, let's make the nation something we're proud of.

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Recommended (and more positive) book: Shaun Tan: The Arrival

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