Events
- 27 January: A state of emergency is declared in Southland as record rainfall causes flooding which forces the evacuation of 4000 people and leaves damage totalling $55 million.
- 6 February: Te Hikoi ki Waitangi march disrupts Waitangi Day celebrations.
- 27 March: A suitcase bomb explodes at the Wellington Trades Hall, killing the caretaker, Ernie Abbott. No arrest has been made, see Terrorism in New Zealand.
- 14 July: Election of the Fourth Labour Government
- 18 July: Government devalues New Zealand dollar by 20 percent. See New Zealand constitutional crisis, 1984.
- 20 August: New Zealand reestablishes diplomatic relations with Argentina at a consular level.
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“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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