New Zealand vs Australian Flag Debate

Posted 19th May 2015 to the Telegraph Newspaper (Australia)

I agree with the Radio New Zealand that there is nothing really wrong with our National Flag. As a piece of Design it works well
It’s just the Aussies who are the Problem when it comes to Identity so why should we have to change our flag!

Anyway our flag debate has become a source of humor overseas  and I’d like to point out that I made the one of the best Early Parodies
That got some press in the 1990s to Point out we are not Australia! 



  

Future of Middle Earth - the Telegraph UK

Posted 9 December 2014 to the Telegraph Newspaper

Seeing it’s a great day for Peter Jackson in Hollywood...
And now that Sir Peter Jackson has the Hobbit “Done and Dusted” I think it’s time to call for New Zealand to mend fences with Christopher Tolkien, JRR Tolkien’s Son.
Why? because in the 1980s the NZ Government Snubbed the Tolkien’s when they removed his Father’s Names from the Map of New Zealand without so much as consulting him.
It was especially if you read the demeaning reasons for the action in the first place, followed decades later by the Anduin Reach Saga and then Tolkien’s Mountain.
It’s clear Christopher has been shown pretty poor treatment by NZ Government representatives considering all the economic benefits His Fathers Works have brought us.
As the Steward of the Tolkien Estate he deserves better respect.

At this point in time a Prime Ministerial Apology would be a great gesture considering Christopher is not that happy with New Zealand and that is truly a sad thing.

New Zealand Taxpayers through Prime minister John Key have subsidized Hollywood Corporations with Millions of Dollars over the years but have only given the fingers to the Tolkien Family.

Consequently the Tolkien Estate has every reason to make sure any future Tolkien Films are done in the UK.

Peaks to be named Hillary & Tenzing

the Telegraph  4 / 10 / 2013

Nepal to name two Himalayan peaks after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

Nepal plans to name two Himalayan peaks after pioneering Mount Everest climbers Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a senior hiking official said, in a move designed to boost tourism in the beautiful but desperately poor country.

New Zealander Hillary and his Nepali guide Tenzing made it to the 29,035-foot (8,850-metre) summit of the world's highest mountain on May 29, 1953 as part of a British expedition, which put Nepal on the map as a destination for adventure tourism.

A government panel has recommended that two unnamed mountains be called Hillary Peak and Tenzing Peak, said Ang Tshering Sherpa, a former president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.

"This is to honour their contribution to mountaineering in Nepal," Sherpa, who headed the panel, told Reuters.

The two peaks – Hillary's at 25,200ft and Tenzing's at 25,971ft – have never been climbed and are expected to be opened to foreigners in the spring season that starts in March, he said.

Officials hope the peaks will attract more climbers and help boost tourism in Nepal, home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains. Tourism now accounts for about 4 per cent of the country's economy and employs thousands of people.

In 2010 the New Zealand Geographic Board turned down a submission to name two New Zealand Peaks after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.