silver fern flag

Their campaign used a stylised silver fern flag designed by Cameron Sanders.

The silver fern flag is a popular unofficial flag of New Zealand.

Some alternative flags for New Zealand, such as the silver fern flag, use the silver fern.

The design of the flag combines the silver fern flag (toward the hoist) with the stars of the current national flag.

To top this off the complete Kiwi contingent stand at the front of briefing with an all black Silver fern flag while we give a short presentation.

The black, white and blue silver fern flag is a proposed flag for New Zealand by architectural designer Kyle Lockwood.

"Then to top it off a helicopter circled around over Coronet Peak with a huge Silver Fern flag flying behind, tugging at the patriotic heart strings."

A silver fern flag is any flag design that incorporates a silver fern, and is usually a white silver fern on a black background.

Kyle Lockwood - architectural designer, designer of the Silver fern flag (DipDArch and DipArchTech)

The then-Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley, supported Hasler's view that a new flag for New Zealand could be the Silver fern flag.

New Zealand athletes competing in the boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympics competed under the NZOC flag, which is the silver fern flag superimposed over the Olympic rings.

The first suggestion that a silver fern flag be adopted as New Zealand's official flag came in 1998 from Cultural Affairs Minister Marie Hasler of the National Party.

A number of New Zealand sports teams, such as the cricket team, the Silver Ferns and the All Blacks, use similar silver fern flags as part of their official merchandise.

TNZ dubbed their campaign the "Loyal" campaign, featuring a Silver fern flag with the word "Loyal" and an existing song of the same name by New Zealand musician Dave Dobbyn.

Shipley, along with the New Zealand Tourism Board, supported the quasi-national silver fern flag, by using a white silver fern on a black background, along the lines of the Canadian maple leaf flag.

In January 2005 the NZ Flag.com Trust, using a stylised silver fern flag designed by Cameron Sanders, launched a petition to initiate a referendum on the flag issue, but failed to attract enough signatures.

In 2003, New Zealand's America's Cup team, Team New Zealand, launched the "Loyal" campaign, using a silver fern flag and a song of the same name by New Zealand musician Dave Dobbyn.

Key later changed his preference to Kyle Lockwood's Silver Fern (Red, White & Blue) design, due to the similarity of the silver fern flag with the Jihadist black flag, used by Islamic extremist groups such as ISIL.

However, the debate was muted by the controversy surrounding Tourism Board contracts going to the public-relations firm Saatchi & Saatchi, whose World CEO Kevin Roberts, also an advocate of the silver fern flag, was a good friend of Shipley.

Results show the black, white, and blue Silver fern flag by Kyle Lockwood advancing to the second referendum, which is planned for 3-24 March 2016 and will ask voters to choose between the current New Zealand flag and the preferred alternative design selected in the first referendum.

After public disappointment with the official shortlist of four options, a social media campaign was launched on 2 September for the Red Peak flag, a design well-liked by supporters of changing the New Zealand flag who disapprove of the silver fern flag and other similar proposed designs.

Whilst the All Blacks version of the silver fern flag was once favoured by New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, opponents of the design believe it gives undue emphasis to the country's sport or resembles a pirate flag or the Islamic Black Standard as used by ISIL.