Events
- The first Kohanga reo kindergarten, Pukeatua, opens at Wainuiomata. Within 12 years there were more than 800 nationwide.
- Social Credit forms an agreement with National to back the Clyde Dam (a Think Big project) in exchange for policy concessions.
- The Clutha Development (Clyde Dam) Empowerment Act was passed, overriding the High Court and Planning Tribunal.
- The proposed aluminium smelter at Aramoana was cancelled.
- The Social Credit Political League changes its name to the Social Credit Party.
- New Zealand provided assistance to the British during the Falklands War, primarily by taking over routine patrol duties elsewhere to free up British military resources.
- The Warehouse opens its first store, in Takapuna.
- January: The third Sweetwaters Music Festival is held near Pukekawa.
- 3 February: David Lange succeeds Bill Rowling as Leader of the Opposition.
- 4 April: New Zealand breaks diplomatic relations with Argentina over the Falklands Crisis.
- 22 June: Rob Muldoon announces a 12-month wage and price freeze. The freeze actually lasts almost two years.
- 14 September: Samoans who take up permanent residence in New Zealand are entitled to New Zealand citizenship from this date.
- November: Mark Inglis and Philip Doole are stuck in an ice cave on Aoraki/Mount Cook for 14 days.
- 18 November: a suicide bomb attack was made against a facility housing the main computer database of the New Zealand Police in Wanganui by a "punk rock" anarchist named Neil Roberts. He was the only person killed, and the computer system was undamaged, see Terrorism in New Zealand.
- 14 December: Rob Muldoon signs a "Heads of Agreement" with Australia to allow the Closer Economic Relations agreement to come into force at the beginning of 1983.
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