Community Resources

As the National Road Show continues to travel around New Zealand, the flag.govt.nz site has been updated with a community ‘resource kit’. Created to help encourage discussions with “whanau, workmates or members of a community”, you can read tips about having a respectful discussion, take a quiz, and then share what you ‘stand for’ as part of the process on the standfor.co.nz site.

Here’s the tips from the document about having a respectful discussion.

Tips for a respectful discussion:

• Encourage everyone to participate
• Focus on responding to the discussion questions
• All responses are valid – there are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers
• Respect the views of others
• Provide each other with encouraging feedback
• Ask people to clarify what they are saying if you do not understand
• It is ok to disagree, feel challenged or uncomfortable

As well as that helpful advice many on Twitter discussing the flag could benefit from reading, there’s a quiz with some simple questions about the history of our current flag.

New Zealand Flag Quiz:

1. How many official national flags has New Zealand had?
2. How was New Zealand’s first official national flag chosen?
3. What flag did New Zealand use immediately after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi?
4. When did the current design become our official national flag?
5. What is the Tino Rangatiratanga flag?
6. In what ways is the New Zealand flag different from the Australian flag?

You can find the answers to the quiz and other information about engaging with your community at the link below.

— https://www.govt.nz/assets/documents/flags/fcp-community-resource-kit.pdf