The NZ Flag debate

The flag should be changed because both the New Zealand and the Australian flags are way too similar. They are too similar because they both have the Southern Cross, Union Jack and a blue background.

          Australian flag                                                           New Zealand

What if someone in the Olympics is on the Australian team and they won a gold medal but at the medal ceremony they raised the NZ flag instead of the Aussie flag.

The NZ flag needs more colour. People don't want to be represented by a dull flag. I think it looks way better with the Silver Fern. The old flag’s background was just blue, so I think people like the combination of the black, blue and Silver Fern.  

The Silver fern on the new flag represents NZ better because it is on all of New Zealand's sports uniforms like the All Blacks, the Silver Ferns, the Tall Whites, the Black Sticks and the All Whites. The silver fern is a native plant of NZ.

So my main reason is that the New Zealand flag should be changed because it looks way too similar to the Australian flag, it looks better with the Silver fern, it needs more colour and it represents NZ way better than the old flag.

These are the six flags that were in the debate at the start.