Portal:New Zealand/Did you know/21

...Selection
 * ... that New Zealand currently has free trade agreements with Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Chile and China?
 * ...that the New Zealand mud snail has become an invasive pest species in Australia, Europe and North America?
 * ...that the 1996 MMP election put more women and Māori into government and was the first New Zealand Parliament to elect an Asian?
 * ...that the Flag of Otago represents the blue skies over the region's golden hills?
 * ...that there are more Polynesians in Auckland than in any other Pacific city?