A national HOLIDAY for all NZ

[Indiana_Jones]

November 8th?

The day we told Clark to fuck off

-Indy

[jrandom]

We're one of the least productive economies in the OECD and you want more holidays?

Interesting.

http://dataranking.com/table.cgi?LG=e&TP=ne03-1&RG=1

21st out of the 30 OECD countries in 2007 in terms of GDP per capita by purchasing power parity.

Sounds kinda shit. But then, Japan's only coming 17th. And we got South Korea beat.

Go go milk powder and woodchip economy!

[Swoop]

Go go milk powder and woodchip economy!

Best not be too loud about the milk powder industry. China might hear.

[FROSTY:Me]

um... we have two flags (well one really but we just humor the other), maori only beaches, maori only scholarships and now people are saying "two holidays" - so that will make it, Whytangi day AND New Zealand day??

Your kidding right???

We already have enough division in this country to fill a mathematics book... heck i'm tempted to move to South Africa... for LESS racism and division.

Dude that is EXACTLY my point. Why not another day to celebrate how great this country is not for protests etc but for anybody that calls themselves a new zealander --either by birth or because they wanted to be kiwis (immigrants).
Leave waitangi day as the sore thumb its actually become.

[Trudes]

I think we should have a KIWI BIKER DAY.

Now that would be cool, a day when only bikes are allowed on the roads, no cars or trucks etc..... imagine the carnage!!

I would think that if there was another day to celebrate being a New Zealander i.e. New Zealand Day, seperate from Waitangi Day, there would still be those few that would feel the need to protest about something. At the end of the day the Teaty is all of ours and so is the day.

[The Pastor]

yes, more holidays. holidays are great!

[wickle]

Why more public holidays? then more people will have to work them . was there not a poll recently about working public holidays and I think 54% were working " GREAT PUBLIC HOLIDAYS"

[yungatart]

A National Day?
That is one of the things I celebrate on Anzac Day...that is the day, I believe, that NZ became a country in its own right.

[jrandom]

Anzac Day...that is the day, I believe, that NZ became a country in its own right.

Why do you feel that way about Anzac Day?

The commemoration of thousands of deaths in a pointless war that NZ entered into because of its unthinking support of British imperial foreign policy?

Don't get me wrong. I attend dawn service each year out of respect for the men who died, even though the hypocritical religious aspect of it grates on me.

But I'm uncomfortable about the idea of that particular holiday defining us as a nation.

I do, in fact, prefer Waitangi Day for that purpose.

Y'know, the Americans are very proud of their Declaration of Independence, which was written while native North Americans were being herded and slaughtered and Africans were being forced into slavery to make its authors rich. Some men, it would seem, were created a little more equal than others.

But even if subsequent abuses tarnished it, and even if those abuses led inexorably toward twentieth century social problems, New Zealand is the only nation in existence where Western colonists established a government after forming a treaty with the native occupants and joining together in full citizenship with them.

And I don't mind letting those enlightened humanist ideals define us as a nation. I don't mind at all.

[yungatart]

I feel that way because on that day New Zealanders earned a reputation in the world..not as part of "Mother England" but as a seperate entity, and it was quite possibly the first time that New Zealanders of whatever ethnic background stood together in defense of their country.
Those soldiers went away as part of an English (Commonwealth) fighting force but were known as NZ ers at the end of it.

[fliplid]

Those soldiers went away as part of an English (Commonwealth) fighting force but were known as NZ ers at the end of it.

Kinda like the Canadians started to feel after the battle at Vimy Ridge.

[Indiana_Jones]

The commemoration of thousands of deaths in a pointless war that NZ entered into because of its unthinking support of British imperial foreign policy?

"Give Harry Hun a darned good British style thrashing, six of the best, trousers down?"

"looking forward to the big push?!"

-Indy

[FROSTY:Me]

Why more public holidays? then more people will have to work them . was there not a poll recently about working public holidays and I think 54% were working " GREAT PUBLIC HOLIDAYS"

No dude I think it should be like xmas and easter a day when ALL Kiwis get a day of rest/celebration.

[Drunken Monkey]

No dude I think it should be like xmas and easter a day when ALL Kiwis get a day of rest/celebration.

Ah, so you'd like to enforce the holiday then. Personal choice can go out the window...

[FROSTY:Me]

Ah, so you'd like to enforce the holiday then. Personal choice can go out the window...

As a matter of fact yes. Take a look what has happened over the past few years to other public holidays.The moment its not enforced anybody working in retail is gonna get the squeeze to "opt' to work on that day.
My opinion is that 5 out of 365 days a year should be mandatory shut down