2000 in New Zealand

2000 in New Zealand:

Other years in New Zealand

1997 • 1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] 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, QSO^[1]

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Music

See: 2000 in music, New Zealand Top 50 Albums of 2000

[edit] Radio and Television

• July 1: 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Internet

See: NZ Internet History

[edit] 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

[edit] Sport

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

[edit] Athletics

• Mark Hutchinson wins his third national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:24:58 on October 29 in Auckland, while Melissa Moon claims her first in the women's championship (2:45:42).

[edit] 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.

[edit] Cricket

• New Zealand cricket team
• The State Championship was won by the Northern Districts Knights

[edit] Golf

• New Zealand Open , Category:New Zealand golfers in overseas tournaments.

[edit] Horse racing

See Category:Horse races in New Zealand

[edit] Netball

• Silver Ferns
• National Bank Cup

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Rugby Union

Category:Rugby union in New Zealand , Super 12, National Provincial Championship , Category:All Blacks , Bledisloe Cup , Tri Nations Series , Ranfurly Shield

[edit] 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.

[edit] Births

Category:2000 births

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] References