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Let's not rename Queen's Birthday
Over the long weekend we asked visitors to our Community page what they thought of the New Zealand public holiday that falls on the first Monday in June. More than 1700 people let us know their innermost thoughts. There wasn’t a hell of a lot for the Republican movement to get excited about with the results: 56% of Kiwis preferred to retain the status quo. Another 26% were happy to have it called anything under the sun, just as long as they got a day with their feet up on the La-z-boy. Of those that were keen for a change, Matariki (aka Maori New Year) led the way with 9% of votes, followed by Sir Edmund Hillary Weekend with 5%. In terms of the battle of the sexes, it was roughly a 50/50 split between men and women who voted in favour of the “no change” and “day off” options, but a lot more women than men were keen on the Matariki idea (outnumbering them 2 to 1). In a nutshell: it looks like a long, hard slog to convince most New Zealanders that something other than Queen’s Birthday Holiday should be appearing on kitchen calendars across the nation.
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