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Incumbents
Regal and Vice Regal
- Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand
- Governor-General - The Rt Hon. Sir Michael Hardie Boys GNZM, GCMG, QSO1
Government
The 46th New Zealand Parliament continued. Government was The Labour Party led by Helen Clark, in coalition with Alliance, led by Jim Anderton.
- Speaker of the House - Jonathan Hunt
- Prime Minister - Helen Clark
- Deputy Prime Minister - Jim Anderton
- Minister of Finance - Michael Cullen
- Minister of Foreign Affairs - Phil Goff
Opposition Leaders
See: Category:New Zealand Parliament , New Zealand elections
- National - TBD (Leader of the Opposition)
- Greens - Jeanette Fitzsimons and Rod Donald
- Act - TBD
- New Zealand First - Winston Peters
- United Future - TBD
- Māori Party - TBD
Main centre leaders
- Mayor of Auckland - Christine Fletcher
- Mayor of Hamilton - Russell Matthew Remmington
- Mayor of Wellington - Mark Blumsky
- Mayor of Christchurch - Garry Moore
- Mayor of Dunedin - Sukhi Turner
Events
- 1 January: Broadcasts from the Chatham Islands and the New Zealand mainland are watched worldwide as New Zealand, by virtue of time zone, kicks off the world-wide millennium celebrations.
Arts and literature
- James Norcliffe wins the Robert Burns Fellowship.
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards:
- Montana Medal: Grahame Sydney, The Art of Grahame Sydney
- Deutz Medal: Owen Marshall, Harlequin Rex
- Reader's Choice: Grahame Sydney, The Art of Grahame Sydney
- First Book Awards
- Fiction: Duncan Sarkies, Stray Thoughts And Nosebleeds
- Poetry: Glenn Colquhoun, The Art of Walking Upright
- Non-Fiction: Pether Thomson, Kava In The Blood
See 2000 in art, 2000 in literature, Category:2000 books
Music
See: 2000 in music, New Zealand Top 50 Albums of 2000
Radio and Television
- 1 July: Public Broadcasting Fee finishes. [2]
See: 2000 in New Zealand television, 2000 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:New Zealand television, TV3 (New Zealand), Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand
Film
See: Category:2000 film awards, 2000 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:2000 films
Internet
See: NZ Internet History
Appointments and awards
See: New Zealand Order of Merit , Order of New Zealand
- Archbishop of New Zealand
- Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia , see appointments to Diocese
Sport
Athletics
- Mark Hutchinson wins his third national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:24:58 on 29 October in Auckland, while Melissa Moon claims her first in the women's championship (2:45:42).
Basketball
- The NBL was won by the Auckland Stars who beat the Nelson Giants, 95-78 in the final. 2
- The Women’s NBL was won by the Otago Breakers, who beat Waikato in the final, 75-69
- The Tall Blacks lost all five pool games at the Olympic Men's tournament, then beat Angola in the classification game to finish 11th out of 12 teams.
- The Tall Ferns lost all five pool games at the Olympic Women's tournament, then beat Senegal in the classification game to finish 11th out of 12 teams.
Cricket
- New Zealand cricket team
- The State Championship was won by the Northern Districts Knights
Golf
- New Zealand Open , Category:New Zealand golfers in overseas tournaments.
Horse racing
See Category:Horse races in New Zealand
Netball
Summer Olympic Games
- New Zealand sent 151 athletes to the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia. The medal tally of 1 gold and 3 bronze medals was considered very disappointing and sparked a review of high-performance sports training programmes.
Rugby league
- Inaugural Bartercard Cup won by the Canterbury Bulls
- The Auckland Warriors finished 13th of 14 teams in the NRL. The club was under severe financial pressure until purchased by Eric Watson and rebranded as the New Zealand Warriors.
Rugby Union
Category:Rugby union in New Zealand , Super 12, National Provincial Championship , Category:All Blacks , Bledisloe Cup , Tri Nations Series , Ranfurly Shield
Soccer
- The New Zealand National Soccer League was relaunched as a winter competition with 10 teams and finals playoffs. The winner was Napier City Rovers.
- New Zealand placed second to Australia at the OFC Nations Cup tournament held in Tahiti
- Chatham Cup won by Napier City Rovers.
Births
Deaths
- 8 April: Alan K. Grant, writer, satirist.
- 24 April: John Beck, cricketer.
- 17 June: Alex Moir, cricketer.
- 8 November: Patricia Bartlett, pro-censorship activist.
- Connie Purdue, trade unionist, activist.
See also
- List of years in New Zealand
- Timeline of New Zealand history
- History of New Zealand
- Military history of New Zealand
- Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand
- Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica
For world events and topics in 2000 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 2000
References
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