2018 in New Zealand

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The following lists events that happened during 2018 in New Zealand.

Population[]

  • Estimated population as of 31 December 2018 – 4,886,100[1]
  • Increase since 31 December 2017 – 80,700 (1.68%)[1]
  • Males per 100 females – 96.8[1]

Incumbents[]

Regal and vice-regal[]

  • Head of State – Elizabeth II
  • Governor-General – Patsy Reddy

  • Elizabeth II

  • Patsy Reddy

Government[]

2018 is the first full year of the 52nd Parliament, which first sat on 7 November 2017.

The Sixth Labour Government, elected in 2017, continues.

  • Trevor Mallard

  • Jacinda Ardern

  • Winston Peters

  • Chris Hipkins

  • Grant Robertson

Other party leaders[]

  • National – Bill English until 27 February, then Simon Bridges (Leader of the Opposition)
  • New Zealand First – Winston Peters
  • Green – James Shaw and, from 8 April, Marama Davidson
  • ACT New Zealand – David Seymour

  • Bill English

  • Simon Bridges

  • Winston Peters

  • James Shaw

  • Marama Davidson

  • David Seymour

Judiciary[]

  • Sian Elias

Main centre leaders[]

  • Phil Goff

  • Greg Brownless

  • Justin Lester

  • Lianne Dalziell

  • Dave Cull

Events[]

February[]

March[]

  • 6 March – The 2018 New Zealand census is held.

May[]

  • 11 May – A wave of about 24 metres (79 ft) height, the highest ever recorded, is observed near Campbell Island south of New Zealand; the previous record wave in 2012 was about 22 metres (72 ft).[3]
  • 17 May – The 2018 New Zealand budget is presented to Parlimanet by the Minister of Finance, Grant Robertson.[4]

June[]

December[]

Sport[]

Commonwealth Games[]

Main article: New Zealand at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
  • New Zealand sends a team of 253 competitors in 17 sports.
 Gold  Silver  Bronze Total
15 16 15 46

Olympic Games[]

Main article: New Zealand at the 2018 Winter Olympics
  • New Zealand sends a team of 21 competitors in five sports.
 Gold  Silver  Bronze Total
0 0 2 2

Paralympic Games[]

Main article: New Zealand at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
  • New Zealand sends a team of three competitors in two sports.
 Gold  Silver  Bronze Total
1 0 2 3

Sailing[]

Shooting[]

Youth Olympics[]

Main article: New Zealand at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
  • New Zealand sends a team of 61 competitors.
 Gold  Silver  Bronze Total
3 1 0 4

Deaths[]

January[]

  • 4 January
  • 5 January
  • 7 January
    • Jim Anderton, politician (born 1938)
    • Buster Stiggs, musician (born 1954)
  • 12 January – Richard Peterson, fencer, sports administrator (born 1940)
  • 17 January – Ted McCoy, architect (born 1925)
  • 21 January – Michael Selby, geomorphologist (born 1936)
  • 22 January
    • Jack Doms, swimmer (born 1927)
    • Kevin Tate, soil chemist, climate scientist (born 1943)
  • 25 January – Graham Williams, rugby union player (born 1945)
  • 27 January – Grant Fell, musician (born c. 1961)
  • 31 January – Pat Booth, journalist (born 1929)

February[]

  • 3 February – Ted Corbett, organic chemist (born 1923)
  • 8 February – Gary Seear, rugby union player (born 1952)
  • 10 February – Bevan Congdon, cricketer (born 1938)
  • 11 February – Darien Boswell, rower (born 1938)
  • 21 February – Beryl Fletcher, novelist (born 1938)
  • 25 February – Noel Scott, politician (born 1929)
  • 27 February – Keith Murdoch, rugby union player (born 1943)

March[]

  • 2 March – Gordon Challis, poet (born 1932)
  • 9 March – Robin Archer, rugby union player and coach (born 1930)
  • 11 March – Paddy Donovan, boxer, rugby union player (born 1936)
  • 14 March
    • Peter Entwisle, art historian (born 1948)
    • Mac McCallion, rugby union player and coach (born 1950)
  • 20 March – Dylan Mika, rugby union player (born 1972)
  • 28 March – Norm Wilson, cricketer (born 1931)

April[]

  • 6 April – Colin McLeod, civil engineer (born 1921)
  • 10 April – Fergie McCormick, rugby union player (born 1939)
  • 11 April – Robert Matthews, Paralympic athlete (born 1961)
  • 16 April – Ivan Mauger, motorcycle speedway rider (born 1939)
  • 23 April – Haddon Donald, soldier, politician (born 1917)
  • 24 April – Arthur Eustace, athlete, athletics coach and administrator (born 1926)
  • 25 April – Margo Buchanan-Oliver, marketing academic (born 1952)
  • 26 April – David Mitchell, architect (born 1941)

May[]

  • 2 May – Katherine O'Regan, politician (born 1946)
  • 4 May – Tony Steel, rugby union player, politician (born 1941)
  • 9 May
    • Norma, Lady Beattie – vice-regal consort (born 1925)
    • Carl Perkins, musician (born c. 1959)
  • 15 May – Hopeful Christian, founder of Gloriavale Christian Community (born 1926)
  • 16 May – Tom Hadfield, rugby league player (born 1934)
  • 19 May – John Moorfield, Māori language academic (born 1943)
  • 28 May – Dick Quax, athlete, local-body politician (born 1948)

June[]

  • 4 June – J. B. Munro, politician, disability advocate (born 1936)
  • 7 June – Sir Neil Waters, university administrator (born 1931)
  • 13 June – Milan Mrkusich, artist, designer (born 1925)
  • 14 June
    • Vincent Gray, chemist, climate change denier (born 1922)
    • Steve Kuzmicich, statistician (born 1931)
  • 18 June – Graham Davy, athlete, sports administrator (born 1936)
  • 23 June – Koro Wētere, politician (born 1935)
  • 30 June – Mark Irwin, rugby union player (born 1935)

July[]

  • 1 July – Merv Richards, pole vaulter, gymnastics and pole vault coach (born 1930)
  • 3 July – Gary Bold, physicist (born 1938)
  • 4 July – Harry M. Miller, impresario (born 1934)
  • 9 July
    • Sam Chisholm, media executive (born 1939)
    • Colin Quincey, first person to row solo across the Tasman Sea (born 1945)
  • 13 July – Naturalism, Thoroughbred racehorse (foaled 1988)
  • 14 July – Janet Holm, environmental activist, historian (born 1923)
  • 17 July – David Stevens, screenwriter (born 1940)
  • 25 July – Rick Littlewood, judoka (born 1940)
  • 29 July
    • Graham Finlay, boxer (born 1936)
    • Phillip Orchard, rugby league player (born 1948)

August[]

  • 2 August – Bob Berry, dendrologist (born 1916)
  • 3 August
  • 4 August – Delwyn Costello, cricketer (born 1960)
  • 6 August – Helen Mackenzie, swimmer (born 1930)
  • 17 August – Warwick Roger, journalist, magazine editor (born 1945)
  • 18 August – Ronnie Moore, speedway rider (born 1933)
  • 19 August – Margaret Reid, Presbyterian minister (born 1923)
  • 20 August – Greg Boyed, television presenter (born 1970)
  • 21 August – Spencer P. Jones, musician (born 1956)
  • 23 August – Wendy Hutton, travel and food writer (born 1940)
  • 30 August – Jack Garrick, ichthyologist (born 1928)

September[]

  • 5 September
    • Alan Peart, World War II fighter ace (born 1922)
    • John Stacpoole, architect, historian (born 1919)
  • 7 September – John O'Sullivan, rugby league player (born 1950)
  • 14 September – Ruth Dowman, athlete (born 1930)
  • 16 September – Assid Corban, politician, businessman (born 1925)
  • 22 September - Hayden Poulter, convicted murderer (born 1961)
  • 24 September — Merv Smith, radio personality (born 1933)

October[]

  • 2 October – Barry Linton, cartoonist (born 1947)
  • 3 October – David Fergusson, psychologist (born 1944)
  • 4 October
    • Penny Bright, activist (born 1954)
    • Barrie Frost, psychologist, neuroscientist (born c. 1939)
  • 6 October – Wilf Malcolm, mathematician, university administrator (born 1933)
  • 13 October – Bob Doran, computer scientist (born 1944)
  • 14 October – Tom Delahunty, association football referee (born 1935)
  • 17 October
    • Denis Adam, arts patron (born 1924)
    • Sir Ngātata Love, academic, Te Āti Awa leader (born 1937)
    • Sir Thomas Thorp, jurist (born 1925)
  • 19 October – Sir John McGrath, jurist (born 1945)
  • 24 October – Keith Hunter, marine and freshwater chemist (born 1951)
  • 27 October – Murray Khouri, clarinetist (born 1941)
  • 29 October
    • Peter Hawes, playwright, novelist, and scriptwriter (born 1947)
    • June Kerr, ballerina (born 1932)
  • 31 October
    • Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, jurist (born 1931)
    • Maurice Mahoney, architect (born 1929)

November[]

  • 4 November – Tama Renata, musician
  • 6 November – Gordon Whiting, jurist (born 1942)
  • 13 November – Sir John Anderson, businessman, sports administrator (born 1945)
  • 14 November – Douglas Wright, dancer, choreographer (born 1956)
  • 18 November – Peter Peryer, photographer (born 1941)
  • 19 November – Neil Collins, broadcaster, local-body politician (born 1941)
  • 20 November – Cyril Belshaw, anthropologist (born 1921)
  • 24 November – Gordon Copeland, politician (born 1943)
  • 28 November – Georgie Salter, netball player and coach (born c. 1951)

December[]

  • 1 December – Vivian Lynn, artist (born 1931)
  • 2 December – William Smith, naval officer (born 1922)
  • 3 December – Geoff Murphy, film director and screenwriter (born 1938)
  • 5 December – John Armstrong, politician (born 1935)
  • 6 December – Robin Clark, chemist (born 1935)
  • 11 December
    • Winifred Griffin, swimmer (born 1932)
    • Hiwi Tauroa, rugby union player and coach, Race Relations Conciliator (born 1927)
  • 20 December
  • 21 December – Fay Gock, horticulturalist (born 1933)
  • 25 December – Bill Baillie, athlete (born 1934)
  • 30 December – Harry Atkinson, physicist, science administrator (born 1929)

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Historical population estimates tables". Stats NZ Tatauranga Aotearoa. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Man accused of murdering Dunedin teen Amber-Rose Rush named". 1 News. 21 May 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  3. ^ "A Wave 8-Floor High, Largest Ever Recorded, Forms Near New Zealand". NDTV. Agence France-Presse. 11 May 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Budget statement — Budget debate". New Zealand Parliament. 17 May 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2018". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Backpacker Grace Millane met murder accused on dating app". Stuff. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  7. ^ "New Year honours list 2019". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  8. ^ Tso, Matthew (5 February 2018). "Ballinger Belt title back in New Zealand after tight final". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
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