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New Zealand is surrounded by water and the colour blue to me represents the ocean that surrounds our islands to others it can represent the clear blue skies. My design is the silver fern and the Southern Cross each star is representative of the North Island, South Island, Stewart Island, and the Chatham Island group. “When I’m designing a flag, I’ve got to think about how it flows in the breeze, how it would look draped, how it would look above a podium. We’re also a very humble nation, we don’t like to talk about ourselves that much – I don’t like to talk about myself either, but my father represented New Zealand in underwater hockey and he stood on a podium and I was very very proud of him playing for the New Zealand team, it will be nice to sort of think about what sort of a flag should represent us. “New Zealand is quite a small nation sitting at the bottom of the world, but we also regularly punch above our weight in things like sports and science. Melbourne-based architect Kyle Lockwood discusses his Silver Fern (Black, White and Blue) design. That means, come Tuesday, the preferred alternative will be found to be one of these two: “There’s almost one percentage point in it,” says Burrows. The flags are ranked less by the number of votes received than by percentage points the black, white and blue design is at 50.53% of the total vote, and the red, white and blue is at 49.47%. “When we reach the final result, they might switch back again, so it’s too close to call.” “The red one was ahead on the first preferences, but the black one’s overtaken it on the second preferences.
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“We’ve currently got a very close race between the two frontrunners,” Burrows told Guardian Australia. There’s a difference of about 20,000 first-preference votes between Kyle Lockwood’s two designs, though the black-and-blue silver fern beat out the red, white and blue once second-preferences were factored in. Professor John Burrows, a former member of the New Zealand Law Commission and the chair of the 12-person Flag Consideration Panel, has clarified the preliminary results and it looks like it might not be as cut-and-dried as first thought. 08.55 Clarification from the Flag Consideration Panel chair Lockwood acknowledged that celebrating was on the cards tonight. “I’d be happy for either-or to get through on Tuesday.” They’d both represent New Zealand very well.
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And the red, to Maori, is a very prestigious colour – it’s the colour of rank, or mana. “We’ve been using black and white as our national colours since at least the 1980s. While the silver fern and the southern cross featured on both designs are clear symbols of New Zealand, Lockwood thinks the black, white and blue is more of a representative colour scheme. “I could not make a decision between the two.”īut there was never a question of him voting for Red Peak, right? He said that he procrastinated over casting his own vote for more than a week. “Of course the final vote’s not ‘til Tuesday, so anything could happen, but when I got the result I was very surprised at the closeness of the two.” He says he was “very excited” to see the preliminary results tonight. Kyle Lockwood has called me up from Melbourne, where he now works as an architectural designer. 09.32 Kyle Lockwood, designer of New Zealand's next potential flag