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‹ Back to New Zealand Prime Ministers of the Twenty First Century New Zealand, at the turn of the Twenty First Century, was run by the Labour Party, under...

A Concise New Zealand History Preface Introduction PART 1: EARLY HISTORY: Polynesian Settlement of New Zealand (1300) Maori Culture and Lifestyle up to...

tight grasp of the reins of the money supply, they proposed to make New Zealand (NZ) a lean, mean, wealth-generating machine. Treasury was blunt in its...

Discover New Zealand For 50 years after Sydney was founded in 1788, New Zealand became an economic outpost of New South Wales. New Zealand's main European...

long after New Zealand had been widely publicised about in Britain, attempts were made to colonise New Zealand. The British came to New Zealand in 1840....

Amokura (Red-tailed Tropic Bird) Phaethon rubricauda Hakawai (New Zealand Snipe) Skua (Hakoakoa) - several species Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus...

‹ Back to European Colonisation of New Zealand The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts- mainly in the North Island between the native Maori, British...

concise textbook on New Zealand history, designed so it can be read by virtually anyone wanting to find out more about New Zealand history. The textbook...

‹ Back to MMP Introduced New Zealand is currently run by the National Party, under the leadership of John Key. The formal coalition comprises of the National...

to New Zealand in the Great Depression New Zealand declared war on Germany at 9.30 pm on the 3rd of September 1939, thus entering World War II. New Zealand...

Mid to Late Twentieth Century Edmund Hillary On the 29th of May 1953, New Zealander Edmund Hillary became the first person to reach the summit of Mount...

Tasman, a Dutch explorer, was one of the first Europeans to discover New Zealand on the 13th of December 1642, in his search for the Great Southern Continent...

A New Economy Introduced to New Zealand The Church Missionary Society was one of the earliest organisations to dispatch missionaries to New Zealand. In...

United Kingdom declared war on Germany in 1914, New Zealand followed without second thoughts. New Zealand only had a small population of just over one million...

concise textbook on New Zealand history, designed so it can be read by virtually anyone wanting to find out more about New Zealand history. The textbook...

‹ Back to Politics in the Twentieth Century 2003 The population of New Zealand reached four million. 2004 The Foreshore and Seabed Controversy The foreshore...

‹ Back to The New Zealand Wars Railways were initially constructed by provincial governments looking for a mode of efficient transportation. The first...

to New Zealand After New Zealand was annexed by Britain, it was initially set up as a dependency of New South Wales. However, by 1841, New Zealand was...

Political History of New Zealand Preface Introduction Pre-European Government The Treaty of Waitangi Early European Government in New Zealand The First Political...

Polynesian Settlement of New Zealand Polynesians had arrived in Aotearoa (the Land of the Long White Cloud) i.e. New Zealand, around 1250 AD. At that...