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Current Flag Wins: Jitterati 28/3/16

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• Electoral Commission - Official Result of the Second Referendum on the Flag
• Parliament Today - Labour Cashes in on PM’s Flag Defeat - English Takes Flag Flak for his PM
• NZ Govt - New Zealanders have chosen their flag
• Labour - New Zealanders reject John Key’s flag project
• Greens - Flag result a failure for PM and lost opportunity for NZ
• NZ First - The people have spoken
• NZ Flag Institute - The New Zealand public has spoken

Final Days:

• Electoral Commission - Final Chance to Have Say on the Flag - Timetable for the final week of the second flag referendum
• NZ First - Serious Constitutional Appointment Sullied by Manipulation - Flag Change Would Cost $458 Million for New Passports - Supporting the RSA
• Conservative Party - Flag Referendum Great. Process Wrong!
• UMR Research Ltd - NZ Flag Referendum Update - Mid-March 2016

Flag Referendum: Electoral Commission Makes Referral To The Police

On 8 and 9 March 2016, the Electoral Commission referred four incidents to Police for further investigation involving individuals who posted on social media that they have voted or intended to vote more than once using other electors’ voting papers in the second flag referendum. More>>

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• Electoral Commission - Second Referendum on the New Zealand Flag Drawing to a Close - Still Waiting for Your Flag Referendum Voting Papers?
• Out-Link - Who will be the first blogger that Winston Peters puts in jail? | Pundit
• NZ First - Big Bill for Flag Change, But No One Did the Sums - Another Blooper in Referendum Papers - Mocking a Legitimate Concern on Flag Voting Information - Voting Papers Flawed; Referendum Should End Now – Peters
• Out-Link - 'Misleading' flag vote form claim debunked | Politics | Newshub
• NZ Flag Institute - New Zealand’s Flag Since 1869 - Was Referendum Process undermined by inaccurate information? - Would a Flag Change be a breach of the Treaty of Waitangi?
• Barnardos - Families encouraged to talk together about flag referendum
• Muffin Break - Bean poll voters flag their ensign
• TV3 Video - Flag doesn't matter at Commonwealth Day

3 To 24 March: Flag Referendum Voting Papers Out

3/3 The second referendum on the New Zealand flag begins today, with more than three million voting packs being delivered to mailboxes over the next week. More>>

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• Flag Consideration Project - Do you know your flag facts? Referendum starts today
• John Bevan-Smith - Flag Consideration Panel promoting “fiction” as “fact” - Corralling Consent: An inquiry into the mythical beginning of the New Zealand flag
• NZ Govt - All New Zealanders should have a say on future flag - New Zealand’s constitutional treasures to be more accessible
• United Future - Flag Referendum Needs To Look Out For Future Generations
• Maori Party - Have your say on the flag referendum
• Auckland Airport - Auckland Airport flying both flags
• Change the NZ Flag - New Zealanders are ready to make history
• NZ Flag Institute - Flawed Referendum Process on changing New Zealand’s Flag
• KEA - Expat boss backs flag change
• Yachting New Nealand - NZL Sailing Team to fly both flags in sail testing for Rio
• UMR Research Ltd - NZ Flag Referendum Update - Mid-March 2016 - NZ Flag Referendum Update - March 2016
• Out-Link - The flag referendum: complicating your decision • Legal Beagle • Public Address
• Out-Link - Why I’m voting to change the flag • Metro Magazine - More flag waving • Metro Magazine
• Out-Link - A creative director’s last lament for this whole sorry flag fiasco | The Spinoff
• Out-Link - Toby Manhire: Time to flag bitterness of debate - National - NZ Herald News
• TV3 Video - Final flag referendum kicks off - Flag vote: History in the making?

Flag Referendum: Jitterati 29/2/16

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• Electoral Commission - Last Chance to Enrol for Second Flag Referendum
• NZ Govt - All New Zealanders should have a say on future flag
• Greens - Green Party encourages New Zealanders to vote as they like
• NZ First - Stop Outsiders Voting on the NZ Flag
• Change the NZ Flag - Flag change supporter pens open letter to 500,000 households - Kiwis around the world support Change the NZ Flag campaign
• Professor Paul Moon - Flag change would be like “amputating” New Zealand history
• Newmarket Business Association - Newmarket Poll Shows “Keep the Flag” Mood Is Prevailing
• Newmarket Business Association - Newmarket Poll Shows “Keep the Flag” Mood Is Prevailing
• TV3 Video - Key: Flag vote no 'pet project' - Full interview: John Key on the Dunedin balcony collapse and the flag - Guy Williams and Gary McCormick talk both sides of the flags - Winston Peters: 'No great hunger' for flag change - Video: NZ First flies flag in face of referenda

Other Flags: Hōne Heke’s Tribal Flag Comes To Auckland

This powerful taonga from the Te Matarahurahu hapū, the first Māori clan to sign the Treaty of Waitangi, will travel from Waitangi to be unveiled during a dawn pōwhiri at MOTAT on Thursday 3 March 2016. More>>

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• David Rankin - Maori protestors to enter flag debate at museum

Flag Debate Moves To Doggerel: Poetry For Sport And War

Robert Kelly: A video published on YouTube features NZ theatre stalwart Ian Mune applying his best gravelly tones to a string of stanzas providing an extremely selective version of New Zealand history titled ‘Lest We Forget: The Real Flag’. Now while I don’t want to address the politics particularly, I do want to talk about the poetry. More>>

ALSO:

• Gordon Campbell - Gordon Campbell on the Aussie banks, and patriotic death porn about the flag
• Electoral Commission - Don’t Miss Out on Your Chance to Vote On the Flag
• Out-Link - New Zealand Flag Facts by nzflagconsideration - issuu
• UMR Research Ltd - NZ Flag Referendum Update - Feb 2016
• NZ First - Desperate Nats Use Sports Stars – What is It Costing Us? - National Warring over Flag
• Change the NZ Flag - More leaders get behind Change the NZ Flag - High profile New Zealanders join “Change the Flag” campaign - Support for new flag gaining momentum
• NZ Flag Institute - John Key’s Referendum Destined to Fail
• Graham Vaughan-Jones - International expert says significant export revenue lost
• Porirua City Council - Mayor welcomes growing support for new flag

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