{"id":3333,"date":"2015-02-27T07:39:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2015-03-21T09:25:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T20:25:59","slug":"new-zealand-to-have-a-two-flag-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=3333","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand to have a \u2018two flag\u2019 policy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/trflag2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3335 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/trflag2-1024x423.jpg\" alt=\"trflag2\" width=\"500\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/trflag2-1024x423.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/trflag2-300x124.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/trflag2-495x204.jpg 495w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/trflag2.jpg 1276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The group that helped to make the Maori flag official has presented its position on the new panel to lead discussions on a NZ flag:<\/p>\n<p>The Te Ata Tino Toa position is:<\/p>\n<p>By the time the flag is adopted, it wants NZ to have a \u2018two flag\u2019 policy.<\/p>\n<p>The new NZ flag should fly at all times alongside the Maori flag, as is done in Australia (indigenous alongside non-indigenous).<\/p>\n<p>The two flags will represent the relationships established under the Treaty of Waitangi.<\/p>\n<p>The group will not have input into the NZ flag discussion, but hopes the design will reflect Aotearoa well.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018As long as the panel develops a two flag model, where the two flags fly proudly side by side at the Olympics, at the rugby, at schools, at the library \u2013 we will be satisfied that te mana o te haki Maori is upheld\u2019<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Te Ata Tino Toa on Breakfast\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hpo_8NhXqss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Te Ata Tino Toa requested that Transit NZ fly the flag on the Harbour Bridge, as other nation&#8217;s flags did. It took about 2-3 years, and for the government to do a national consultation round, before government agreed to fly the M\u0101ori flag from government buildings. Te Ata Tino Toa was the catalyst for this process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group that helped to make the Maori flag official has presented its position on the new panel to lead discussions on a NZ flag: The Te Ata Tino Toa position is: By the time the flag is adopted, it wants NZ to have a \u2018two flag\u2019 policy. The new NZ flag should fly at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-policy","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3934,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions\/3934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}