Incumbents

Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand
• Governor-General - The Rt Hon. Sir Michael Hardie Boys GNZM, GCMG, QSO^[1]

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:Parliament of New Zealand, New Zealand elections

• National - Jenny Shipley (Leader of the Opposition)
• Greens - Jeanette Fitzsimons and Rod Donald
• Act - Richard Prebble
• New Zealand First - Winston Peters
• United - Peter Dunne

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 worldwide 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. http://images.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz/pdf/tvnz_timeline.pdf

See: 2000 in New Zealand television, 2000 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:Television in New Zealand, TV3 (New Zealand), Category:New Zealand television programmes, Public broadcasting in New Zealand

Film

• Jubilee
• Stickmen (film)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Price of Milk

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

• See: 2000 in sports, Category:2000 in sports

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

Harness racing

• New Zealand Trotting Cup: Yulestar^[3]
• Auckland Trotting Cup: Flight South^[4]

Thoroughbred racing

Netball

• Silver Ferns
• National Bank Cup

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

• The inaugural Bartercard Cup was won by the Canterbury Bulls who defeated the Otahuhu Leopards 38-24 in the grand final.
• The Auckland Warriors finished 13th of 14 teams in the NRL. The club was under severe financial pressure until purchased by Eric Watson after the season had ended and rebranded as the New Zealand Warriors.

• 27 April, New Zealand lost to Australia 0-52.
• New Zealand competed in the 2000 Rugby League World Cup, losing to Australia 12-40 in the final.

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
• The Chatham Cup is won by Napier City Rovers who beat Central United 4 1 in the final.^[5]

Births

Category:2000 births

Deaths

• 8 April: Alan "A. 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 the New Zealand environment
• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

References

External links