Three of the designs use the Silver Fern which has long been associated with the country, including its sports teams, so the iconography is familiar to residents. Two of the designs also show the Southern Cross, the constellation which appears on the current flag (those two flags that are really just different colour ways were designed by the same person, Kyle Lockwood, which is why they look so similar). The final design shows a Koru, which is actually also a fern, but is a symbolic image for the nation’s indigenous populations.
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