Events
- January - Nambassa five day celebration of music, crafts and alternative lifestyles culture on 250-acre (100 ha) farm at Waitawheta Valley between Waihi and Waikino. Attendance 20,000.
- January - The second Sweetwaters Music Festival is held near Ngaruawahia.
- 27 April - The Mahon Report into the crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 is release, in which Juctise Peter Mahon famously accuses Air New Zealand of telling "an orchestrated litany of lies".
- 3 May - The first newspaper published on a Sunday in New Zealand; initially called the New Zealand Times.
- July - Passports reintroduced for New Zealanders travelling to Australia. The Australian Royal Commission of Inquiry into Drugs says the exemption was exploited; travel had not required passports following the 1972 Trans-Tasman Travel Agreement.
- 13 July - Springbok rugby union team arrive in New Zealand to begin the 1981 Springbok Tour
- 13 September - The Springbok rugby team leave New Zealand.
- The Kohanga reo scheme is established by the Department of Māori Affairs.
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