Keep it this way

[James Deuce]

nope...but austrailia was. not that you can tell from our flags that we also are not.
We were suppose to be a colony of people who were gonna start a new life in a new land.
but no lets drag the old one here too

As I said though, we had the Southern Cross on our flag 80 years before Australia. Australia didn't have a National Flag until the late '50s, as it is effectively a federation of States, and no one had bothered to ratify a flag.

Moving to NZ wasn't just about people starting a new life either. It was people with the money to establish themselves in another country. No way they were going to ditch their culture as land ownership is the ultimate expression of status.

[Blakamin]

nope...but austrailia was. not that you can tell from our flags that we also are not.

but like Jim sain, NZ had the flag like that before Australia........ just Aussies have done more with it (extra star, white stars so they stand out... gold medals etc. )