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At first New Zealand was administered from Australia as part of the colony of New South Wales, and from 16 June 1840 New South Wales laws were deemed to operate in New Zealand. [68] This was a transitional arrangement, and the British Government issued the Charter for Erecting the Colony of New Zealand on 16 November 1840.
Diana Wichtel, reviewing the show in the New Zealand Listener, described it as "surprisingly watchable", but commented that the format was "history as striptease, with the programme counting down over the weeks to the big winner." [2] Scott Kara, writing in The New Zealand Herald, called it "educational but not dull". [3]
New Zealand troops join multi-national force in the Gulf War. An avalanche on Aoraki / Mount Cook reduces its height by 10.5 metres. 1992. Government and Māori interests negotiate Sealord fisheries deal. Public health system reforms. State housing commercialised. New Zealand gets seat on United Nations Security Council.
New Zealand portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Historians from New Zealand . This category is for articles about historians from the Oceanian country of New Zealand .
Michael King wrote in his history of New Zealand, "Despite a plethora of amateur theories about Melanesian, South American, Egyptian, Phoenician and Celtic colonisation of New Zealand, there is not a shred of evidence that the first human settlers were anything other than Polynesian", [4] and Richard Hill, professor of New Zealand Studies at ...
New Zealand Listener Power List; New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers; Notable Alumni of St Peter's College, Auckland; List of former staff of St Peter's College, Auckland; List of people on stamps of New Zealand; List of South Islanders; List of people by nationality; List of New Zealand suffragists
New Zealand has a strong presence among the Pacific Island countries, and enjoys strong diplomatic relations with Samoa, Fiji, and Tonga, and among smaller nations. [206] A large proportion of New Zealand's aid goes to these countries, and many Pacific people migrate to New Zealand for employment.
The original Māori society of New Zealand was based on a collective identity found on the iwi and hapū. [1]: 20 Iwi are the largest social units in Māori society.In the Māori language iwi roughly means "people" or "nation", [2] [3] and is often translated as "tribe", [4] or "a confederation of tribes".