2017 in New Zealand
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Incumbents
Regal and vice-regal
Government
2017 is the third and final full year of the 51st Parliament, which first sat on 21 October 2014.
The Fifth National Government, first elected in 2008, continues.
- Speaker of the House – David Carter
- Prime Minister – Bill English
- Deputy Prime Minister – Paula Bennett
- Leader of the House – Gerry Brownlee until 2 May, then Simon Bridges
- Minister of Finance – Steven Joyce
- Minister of Foreign Affairs – Murray McCully until 2 May, then Gerry Brownlee
Other party leaders
- Labour – Andrew Little until 1 August, then Jacinda Ardern
- Green – James Shaw and, until 9 August, Metiria Turei
- New Zealand First – Winston Peters
- Māori Party – Te Ururoa Flavell and Marama Fox
- ACT New Zealand – David Seymour
- United Future – Peter Dunne
Main centre leaders
- Mayor of Auckland – Phil Goff
- Mayor of Tauranga – Greg Brownless
- Mayor of Hamilton – Andrew King
- Mayor of Wellington – Justin Lester
- Mayor of Christchurch – Lianne Dalziel
- Mayor of Dunedin – Dave Cull
Events
- 13 February onwards – Wild fires burn on the Port Hills of Christchurch
- 22 February – The Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial opens on the sixth anniversary of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake
- 25 February – Mount Albert by-election takes place
- 7 March – Jacinda Ardern is elected deputy leader of the Labour Party
- 19–21 July – Severe flooding hits the east coast of the South Island between Christchurch and Balclutha.
- 1 August – Jacinda Ardern elected leader of the Labour Party after Andrew Little resigns. [1]
- 23 September – The 2017 general election is scheduled to be held.
Sport
Rugby union
- 2017 British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand, 3 June – 8 July
Shooting
- Ballinger Belt –
- Jim Bailey (Australia)
- Brian Carter (Te Puke), third, top New Zealander[2]
Deaths
January
- 7 January
- Nick Calavrias, businessman (born 1949)
- Sir Bruce Slane, public servant (born 1931)
- 8 January – Elspeth Kennedy, sharebroker, community leader (born 1931)
- 9 January
- Michael Chamberlain, pastor, exonerated in the death of Azaria Chamberlain (born 1944)
- Brown Turei, Anglican archbishop (born 1924)
- 11 January – Newman Hoar, cricketer (born 1920)
- 23 January – Pat Downey, barrister and solicitor, Human Rights Commissioner, legal editor (born 1927)
- 24 January – Manu Maniapoto, rugby union player (born 1935)
- 26 January – Dame Laurie Salas, women's rights and peace activist (born 1922)
February
- 1 February – Bernie Portenski, athlete (born 1949)
- 8 February – Steve Sumner, association footballer (born 1955)
- 12 February – Sione Lauaki, rugby union player (born 1981)
- 14 February – John Watkinson, soil chemist (born 1932)
March
- 1 March – Tania Dalton, netball player (born 1971)
- 3 March – Bramwell Cook, gastroenterologist (born 1936)
- 6 March – Dudley Storey, rower (born 1939)
- 12 March – Murray Ball, cartoonist (born 1939)
- 15 March – Phil Garland, folk musician (born c.1942)
- 23 March – Nigel Hutchinson, film producer and commercial director (born 1941)
- 25 March – Eric Watson, rugby union player and coach, cricketer (born 1925)
- 27 March – Shirley Annan, netball player (born 1940)
April
- 3 April
- Tomairangi Paki, Tainui kuia, kapa haka exponent (born c.1953)
- Bruce Palmer, lawyer, judge (born 1935)
- Bill Tinnock, rower (born 1930)
- 7 April – Robin Kay, artist, historian (born 1919)
- 8 April – Sir Douglas Myers, businessman (born 1938)
- 9 April – John Clarke, satirist (born 1948)
- 18 April – Digby Taylor, sailor (born 1941)
- 19 April – Jill Amos, politician, activist (born 1927)
- 20 April
- David Dougherty, wrongly convicted of rape and abduction (born 1967)
- Sandy McNicol, rugby union player (born 1944)
- 27 April – Alexia Pickering, disabilities rights campaigner (born 1930)
May
- 2 May – Hugo Judd, diplomat (born 1939)
- 3 May – Doug Rollerson, rugby union and rugby league player (born 1953)
- 4 May
- Rosie Scott, author (born 1948)
- Beryl Te Wiata, actor, author, scriptwriter (born 1925)
- 13 May – Nicholas Tarling, historian, academic, author (born 1931)
- 17 May – Kevin Stanton, musician (born c.1956)
- 25 May – Earl Hagaman, hotel operator (born 1925)
June
- 15 June – Dame Ngāneko Minhinnick, Ngāti Te Ata leader (born c.1940)
- 26 June
- Sir Duncan McMullin, jurist (born 1927)
- Guy Ngan, artist (born 1926)
- 27 June – Jacinta Gray, cyclist (born 1974)
- 28 June – Bruce Stewart, author, playwright, marae founder (born 1936)
July
- 5 July – Chris de Freitas, climatologist (born 1948)
- 10 July – Marama Martin, radio and television personality (born 1930)
- 12 July – Allan Hunter, rugby union player, teacher, historian (born 1922)
- 16 July – Cliff Whiting, artist, master carver, heritage advocate (born 1936)
- 17 July – George Hill, agronomist (born 1938)
- 18 July – Ian Mason, cricketer (born 1942)
- 23 July
- Wenceslaus Anthony, businessman (born 1957)
- Tom Lister, rugby union player (born 1943)
August
- 2 August
- Sir John Graham, rugby union player and administrator, educator (born 1935)
- Paul Renton, rugby union player, farmer (born 1962)
References
- ↑ http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201853117/andrew-little-resigns-as-leader-of-the-labour-party
- ↑ "Ballinger Belt". National Rifle Association of New Zealand. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
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