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New Zealand Defence Force
New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF, Te Ope Kātua o Aotearoa): New Zealand's military of Navy, Army, and Air Force under the Chief of Defence Force, ~15,298 personnel, governed by the Defence Act 1990 with the Ministry of Defence as civilian counterpart.
New Zealand Derby
New Zealand Derby, also the Great Northern Derby and Trackside NZ Derby: Group 1 thoroughbred race for three-year-olds over 2400 m at Ellerslie, Auckland. First run 1875; moved from Riccarton in 1973; 2026 winner Road To Paris.
New Zealand dollar
The New Zealand dollar, also known as the Kiwi dollar, is the currency of New Zealand, introduced in 1967 and issued by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.
New Zealand drama
New Zealand drama is the body of plays and theatrical performance connected to Aotearoa New Zealand, spanning 19th-century amateur theater to the modern Māori theater movement.
New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme
The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme is a cap-and-trade program, established in 2008, that prices greenhouse gas emissions across most of the New Zealand economy.
New Zealand English
New Zealand English (NZE) is the national variety of English spoken in New Zealand, distinct from Australian English chiefly by its centralized KIT vowel, the near-square merger, and local vocabulary including Māori loanwords; officially recognized by the English Language Act 2026.
New Zealand Expeditionary Force
New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF, later 1NZEF): New Zealand's overseas force in the First World War, raised from 8 August 1914; fought at Gallipoli, Sinai-Palestine and the Western Front; 117,175 mobilised, about 18,000 dead.
New Zealand First
New Zealand First (NZ First) is a populist, nationalist, anti-immigration New Zealand political party founded by Winston Peters in 1993. It won 13% and 17 seats in 1996, has been a coalition partner with National and Labour under MMP, and lost all seats in 2020 before returning in 2023.
New Zealand flag debate
New Zealand flag debate: long-running proposal to replace the New Zealand Ensign, culminating in 2015–2016 binding referendums; voters kept the current flag 56.6% to 43.2% over Kyle Lockwood's silver fern design.
New Zealand flatworm
New Zealand flatworm (Arthurdendyus triangulatus), a predatory land planarian from the South Island of New Zealand, established in the UK, Ireland and Faroe Islands, preying on earthworms and listed under EU Regulation 1143/2014.
New Zealand Football Championship
New Zealand Football Championship (Te Whakataetae Whutupaoro a Aotearoa), the ISPS Handa Premiership, was New Zealand's top men's football league from 2004 to 2021, an eight-franchise summer competition won a record 12 times by Auckland City before replacement by the National League.
New Zealand Free For All
New Zealand Free For All: Group One harness pacing race at Addington Raceway, Christchurch, run Cup week since 1914, level mark, mobile start, 1980m, $200,000; separate Trotting FFA since 1946.
New Zealand House of Representatives
The New Zealand House of Representatives is the sole chamber of New Zealand's unicameral Parliament, meeting since 1854. It has 120 MMP-elected MPs (123 after 2023), requires government confidence, and replaced the Legislative Council in 1951.
New Zealand Labour Party
New Zealand Labour Party, founded 7 July 1916 in Wellington, New Zealand's oldest existing political party; trade-union-based center-left party that formed the first Labour government in 1935, built the welfare state, governed 2017-2023 under Ardern and Hipkins, and fell to 34 seats with 26.91% in 2023.
New Zealand Law Society
The New Zealand Law Society is the professional body regulating all practicing lawyers in New Zealand, established in 1869 and governed by the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006.
New Zealand Listener
The New Zealand Listener is a New Zealand weekly magazine first published in 1939 as a radio guide, which grew into a major national current affairs and literary magazine.
New Zealand Loyal
New Zealand Loyal (NZ Loyal) is a nationalist populist New Zealand party founded in 2023 by Liz Gunn; it won 1.20% of the 2023 party vote, was deregistered in July 2024, re-registered for the 2026 election under leader Kelvyn Alp.
New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney-General
New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney-General [1987] 1 NZLR 641, the Lands case, is the Court of Appeal decision that first articulated the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, holding the Treaty created a partnership with fiduciary-like good faith duties binding Crown asset transfers under the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986.
New Zealand mud snail
New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum, NZMS), a 3–6 mm Tateidae freshwater snail native to New Zealand, invasive in 43 countries; parthenogenetic, reaching 300,000 snails/m2 and a poor food for fish.
New Zealand Music Awards
The New Zealand Music Awards, now the Aotearoa Music Awards, are New Zealand's annual national recorded-music honors, run by Recorded Music NZ and presented since 1965.
New Zealand national cricket team
New Zealand national cricket team, the BLACKCAPS, men's Test, ODI and T20I side since 1930; inaugural World Test Championship winners 2021, Champions Trophy 2000-01, ranked 3rd in Tests.
New Zealand National Party
The New Zealand National Party, founded 13 May 1936 from the United and Reform parties, is New Zealand's centre-right party, in government 47 of its first 87 years, currently led by Christopher Luxon in coalition with NZ First and ACT.
New Zealand national rugby league team
New Zealand Kiwis, the men's national rugby league team since 1907; won the 2008 Rugby League World Cup 34-20 over Australia, plus 2023 and 2025 Pacific Championships titles.
New Zealand national rugby union team
New Zealand national rugby union team, the All Blacks, men's Test side governed by New Zealand Rugby (formed 1892); black jersey since 1893, famous 1905 Originals tour, haka, and the highest Test winning ratio of any nation.
New Zealand Order of Merit
New Zealand Order of Merit (Tohu Hiranga): New Zealand's main five-level royal honour, instituted 30 May 1996, replacing British chivalric orders; its sir/dame titles were removed in 2000 and reinstated in 2009.
New Zealand Parliament
New Zealand Parliament: the Sovereign and unicameral House of Representatives, elected by MMP with 123 MPs in the 54th Parliament; term 3 years; Legislative Council abolished 1951.
New Zealand Post
New Zealand Post, commonly NZ Post, is New Zealand's state-owned postal and courier company, created from the old Post Office in 1987 and wholly owned by the government.
New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement
The New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement are three annual $60,000 prizes for fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, inaugurated by Prime Minister Helen Clark in 2003.
New Zealand Railways Department
The New Zealand Railways Department was the government department that built and ran New Zealand's national railway network from the 1870s until 1982, and the inter-island ferry service from 1962.
New Zealand Rally Championship
The New Zealand Rally Championship (NZRC) is New Zealand's premier nationwide rally championship, sanctioned by MotorSport New Zealand, with six 2026 rounds and Richard Mason holding a record five titles.