1989 in New Zealand - Events

Events

  • First annual balance of payments surplus since 1973.
  • The Reserve Bank Act sets the role of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as maintaining price stability.
  • The Tomorrow's Schools reforms shift substantial financial and administrative responsibilities for managing schools to elected boards of trustees.
  • Local Government elections under a revised structure.
  • Mäori Fisheries Act passed.
  • The Sale of Liquor Act passed.
  • April: Swedish tourists Urban Höglin and Heidi Paakkonen disappear while backpacking in the Coromandel, leading to the largest land-based search undertaken in New Zealand.
  • 25 April: David Lange suggests New Zealand should withdraw from the ANZUS council.
  • 29 April: The Taranaki Herald publishes its last issue. The newspaper had published since 1852, and was New Zealand's oldest newspaper from 1935.
  • 1 May: Jim Anderton forms the NewLabour Party.
  • 7 August: David Lange resigns as Prime Minister of New Zealand and is replaced by Geoffrey Palmer.
  • 26 November: TV3 begins broadcasting.
  • 10 December: Sunday trading begins.

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