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New Zealand nationality law details the conditions by which a person is a national of New Zealand.The primary law governing these requirements is the Citizenship Act 1977, which came into force on 1 January 1978.
The first Europeans known to have reached New Zealand were the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman and his crew in 1642. [46] Māori killed several of the crew, and no more Europeans went to New Zealand until British explorer James Cook's voyage of 1768–71. [46] Cook reached New Zealand in 1769 and mapped almost the entire coastline.
Women in New Zealand are women who live in or are from New Zealand. Notably New Zealand was the first self-governing country in the world where women were entitled to vote. In recent times New Zealand has had many women in top leadership and government roles, including three female Prime Ministers, most recently Jacinda Ardern.
Several of the 26 countries are crafting initiatives for women's empowerment and gender equality — except when it comes to their citizenship.
Summers was the first of many exceptionally successful New Zealand women writers of women's romance novels, e.g., Daphne de Jong and Robyn Donald. Her influence as a role model can only be assumed, but Jay Dixon suggests in her history of Mills & Boon that some of her plot devices may have been picked up by later New Zealand authors.
Due to New Zealand's geographic isolation, several centuries passed before the next phase of settlement, that of Europeans. Only then did the original inhabitants need to distinguish themselves from the new arrivals, using the adjective "māori" which means "ordinary" or "indigenous" which later became a noun although the term New Zealand native was common until about 1890.
Director James Cameron, currently living in New Zealand, says President Donald Trump's second term is "horrifying," even from overseas.
When an application for New Zealand citizenship is granted, applicants are required to attend a public citizenship ceremony. [ 3 ] Citizenship ceremonies were first held in 1954. [ 4 ]