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New Zealand Republic
New Zealand Republic: the campaign to replace New Zealand's constitutional monarchy under King Charles III with an elected New Zealand head of state, led since 1994 by the Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand, with a Treaty of Waitangi protection clause and a 2040 transition goal.
New Zealand Rugby
New Zealand Rugby, formally the New Zealand Rugby Union and formerly the New Zealand Rugby Football Union (NZRFU), governs rugby union in New Zealand, running the All Blacks and Black Ferns.
New Zealand sea lion
New Zealand sea lion (Phocarctos hookeri, pakake/whakahao), formerly Hooker's sea lion: an endangered otariid endemic to New Zealand, breeding mainly at the subantarctic Auckland and Campbell Islands, with recolonizing Otago, Catlins, and Stewart Island populations.
New Zealand Sign Language
New Zealand Sign Language, or Te reo Rotarota o Aotearoa, is the visual-gestural language of New Zealand's Deaf community, made an official language by the NZSL Act 2006.
New Zealand Special Air Service
New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS), 1st NZSAS Regiment: New Zealand's special forces unit, raised 1955 for Malaya with 22 SAS, later Borneo, Vietnam, Afghanistan; Apiata VC 2007; Operation Burnham inquiry 2020.
New Zealand Spy
New Zealand Spy is a 2026 six-episode NZ comedy series created by Paul Williams, spoofing James Bond with a 1970s spy agency whose recruits fight Australian spies, starring Matafeo, Thomas, McKenzie.
New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands
New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands: five island groups (Snares, Bounty, Antipodes, Auckland, Campbell) between 47° and 53°S, a 1998 UNESCO World Heritage site with 76,458 ha land, endemic seabirds, sea lions, and megaherbs.
New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZ Super Fund)
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund, often called the Cullen Fund, is a sovereign wealth fund established in 2001 to invest government contributions toward the future cost of NZ Superannuation.
New Zealand theatre
New Zealand theater is the professional and community tradition of live stage performance in Aotearoa New Zealand, running from the first Auckland theater of 1841 to resident professional companies and distinct Māori and Pasifika streams.
New Zealand TR class locomotive
The New Zealand TR class locomotive, or NZR Tr class, is a class of small shunting locomotives built for New Zealand from 1924 to the 1970s.
New Zealand Trotting Cup
The New Zealand Trotting Cup is a Group 1 harness race for pacers over 3200 m at Addington Raceway, Christchurch, run since 1904 on the second Tuesday of November during Cup Week, with a $1,000,000 stake in 2025.
New Zealand Veterinary Association
The New Zealand Veterinary Association (NZVA), founded in Wellington in 1923, is the national voluntary professional association representing more than 4,000 veterinarians, with registration handled separately by the Veterinary Council of New Zealand.
New Zealand Veterinary Nursing Association
New Zealand Veterinary Nursing Association (NZVNA), founded 1992, is a not-for-profit membership body for veterinary nurses and allied veterinary professionals in Aotearoa New Zealand, with 1,500+ members, distinct from the AVPRC regulator, publishing The Vet Nurse Lens and wage guidelines.
New Zealand Warriors
New Zealand Warriors (One New Zealand Warriors, formerly Auckland Warriors and Vodafone Warriors), Auckland-based NRL rugby league club founded 1995; first non-Australian team in the competition, grand finalists 2002 and 2011, minor premiers 2002, home ground Mt Smart/Go Media Stadium.
New Zealand Wars
The New Zealand Wars (Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa), 1845–1872, were mid-19th-century conflicts between some iwi Māori and British and colonial forces over sovereignty and land, ending with land confiscations and lasting grievance.
New Zealand women's national football team
Football Ferns, New Zealand women's national football team, governed by New Zealand Football. First played 1975, winning the Asian Cup in Hong Kong; six Women's World Cups (1991–2023); historic first World Cup win 1–0 over Norway in 2023.
New Zealand–Papua New Guinea relations
Bilateral relationship between New Zealand and Papua New Guinea (PNG), established in 1975; marked by the Statement of Partnership 2025–2029, Bougainville peace mediation, an Economic Plan of Action, defence cooperation, and RSE labour mobility.
New Zealand–Samoa relations
New Zealand–Samoa relations: ties from New Zealand's 1914 seizure and League/UN trusteeship of Western Samoa, the Mau movement and Black Saturday, independence on 1 January 1962, the 1962 Treaty of Friendship, Samoan Quota migration, PACER Plus, and the 2024 Statement of Partnership.
New Zealander
New Zealander is the name given here to Ernest Rutherford, the New Zealand-born physicist who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and discovered the atomic nucleus.
New Zealanders
New Zealanders are the people of Aotearoa New Zealand: Māori descendants of Polynesian settlers (1250–1300 CE), later British settlers, and post-1970s Pacific, Asian and other immigrants. 2023 Census population 4,993,923; 67.8% European, 17.8% Māori, 17.3% Asian.
New Zoo (Poland)
New Zoo (Nowe ZOO, Wielkopolski Park Zoologiczny), Poznań, Poland: zoological garden opened 16 September 1974 on Biała Góra near Lake Malta, about 120 hectares, one of Poland's largest zoos, with elephant house, bear sanctuary, and Fort III.
New-age music
New-age music is a tranquil, largely instrumental genre using synthesizers, acoustic instruments and nature sounds, emerging from 1970s counterculture, crystallized by Windham Hill in the 1980s, and recognized by the Grammy Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album award.
New-onset refractory status epilepticus
New-onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE), including its subtype FIRES, is a clinical presentation of unexplained refractory status epilepticus in people without prior epilepsy, defined by 2018 consensus and managed per 2022 international recommendations.
New-play development festivals and conferences
New-play development festivals and conferences are organized programs for developing unproduced plays, spanning full-production festivals like Humana, workshop conferences like the O'Neill's, and reading series.
New-type power system
A new-type power system (新型电力系统) is the electricity system model China set out to build so its grid can run securely with high shares of wind and solar power.
Newag
Newag is a Polish rolling stock manufacturer headquartered in Nowy Sącz with a plant in Gliwice, known for its Impuls multiple units, Dragon and Griffin locomotives, and repair services.
Newag Impuls
Newag Impuls is a family of electric multiple units built by Newag in Nowy Sącz, Poland, since 2012 for regional and suburban service, in two- to six-car sets.
NewAmsterdam Pharma
NewAmsterdam Pharma is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Naarden, the Netherlands, founded in 2019, developing the oral once-daily CETP inhibitor obicetrapib to lower LDL cholesterol in cardiovascular disease.
Newar language (नेपाल भाषा)
Newar language (नेपाल भाषा), or Nepal Bhasa, is a Sino-Tibetan tongue spoken by 863,380 people in the Kathmandu Valley. It is the working language of Kathmandu Metropolitan City.
Newar metal casting
Newar metal casting is the lost-wax and repoussé metalwork tradition of Newar artisans of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, centered in Patan and practiced for over a thousand years.