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The following lists events that happened during 2003 in New Zealand.

Population

  • Estimated population as of 31 December: 4,061,600.[1]
  • Increase since 31 December 2002: 72,000 (1.81%).[1]
  • Males per 100 Females: 96.2.[1]

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

Government

The 47th New Zealand Parliament continued. Government was a coalition between Labour and the small Progressive party with United Future supporting supply votes.

Opposition leaders

Main centre leaders

Events

  • 11 February – Donna Awatere Huata is expelled from the caucus of political party ACT New Zealand. She remained in parliament.
  • 1 April – the Government Communications Security Bureau Act 2003 received Royal Assent
  • 24 April – New Zealand's population reaches the 4,000,000 mark, according to Statistics New Zealand's population clock.[3]
  • 3 June – Air Adventures flight crashes on approach to Christchurch Airport, killing eight on board[4]
  • 9 June – Announcement by the Prime Minister of the provision of a Defence Force engineering group of up to 60 personnel to work on reconstruction tasks in southern Iraq and, as part of New Zealand's continuing participation in Operation Enduring Freedom, of the intention to contribute to a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan.[5]
  • 30 June – Announcement that the North Island population reaches 3 million, North Shore City reaches 200,000 and Porirua City reaches 50,000
  • 5 July – 350 skiers and 70 staff were trapped in skifield facilities on Mount Ruapehu when a sudden storm closes the access road. All descend safely the next day.
  • August – The Refugee Status Appeals Authority declares that Ahmed Zaoui is a genuine asylum seeker. He is moved from a maximum security to medium security prison as a result.
  • 15 August – The Strongman Mine closes
  • 22 August – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes the remote Fiordland.[6]
  • 4 October – A state of emergency is declared in the Wellington Region due to flooding. Paekākāriki suffers damage.[7]
  • 28 October – Don Brash becomes parliamentary leader of the National Party.
  • October – Australian company Toll Holdings completes a takeover of Tranz Rail[8]
  • 18 November – the Supreme Court declares that Donna Awatere Huata has no right to her parliamentary seat.
  • Evangelical Christian based political party Destiny New Zealand formed.

Arts and literature

Awards

New Zealand Book Awards

  • Readers' Choice: Playing God Glenn Colquhoun
  • Non-fiction: Wine Atlas of New Zealand Michael Cooper
  • Fiction: The Shag Incident Stephanie Johnson
  • Poetry: Playing God Glenn Colquhoun
  • History: No idle rich: The Wealthy in Canterbury & Otago 1840–1914 Jim McAloon
  • Lifestyle and contemporary culture: Wine Atlas of New Zealand Michael Cooper
  • Biography: A sort of conscience: The Wakefields Philip Temple
  • Illustrative: Len Castle: Potter Nancy Pel and Len Castle
  • Reference & Anthology: Spirit in a strange land: A Selection of New Zealand spiritual verse edited by Paul Morris, Harry Ricketts and Mike Grimshaw
  • Environment* Te Araroa: The New Zealand Trail Geoff Chapple

New Zealand Music Awards

A number of new categories were introduced this year: 'Highest Selling NZ Album', 'Highest Selling NZ Single', 'Best Pacific Island Album' (its predecessor 'Best Polynesian Album' last presented in 1997), and 'Best Roots Music Album'. 'Best R&B/ Hip Hop Album' was renamed 'Best Urban Album'. Two categories were retired 'Best Children's Album', and 'Best Compilation'. This year was also the first to feature a Lifetime Achievement Award.[9]

  • Album of the Year: The Datsuns – The Datsuns
    • Pacifier – Pacifier
    • Goldenhorse – Riverhead
    • Bic Runga – Beautiful Collision
    • Nesian Mystik – Polysaturated
  • Single of the Year: Goodshirt – Sophie
    • Che Fu – Misty Frequencies
    • Bic Runga – Get Some Sleep
    • Anika Moa – Falling in Love Again
    • Nesian Mystik – It's On
  • Top Group: The Datsuns – The Datsuns
    • Goodshirt – Sophie
    • Nesian Mystik – Polysaturated
  • Breakthrough Artist of the Year: The Datsuns – The Datsuns
    • Goldenhorse – Riverhead
    • Blindspott – Blindspott
  • Best Male Vocalist: Che Fu – Misty Frequencies
    • Jon Toogood- Pacifier (Pacifier)
    • Te Awanui Pine Reeder (Nesian Mystik) – For The People
  • Best Female Vocalist: Bic Runga – Beautiful Collision
    • Anika Moa – Falling in Love Again
    • Kirsten Morrell – Riverhead (Goldenhorse)
  • Best Solo Artist (new category): Bic Runga – Beautiful Collision
    • Anika Moa – Falling in Love Again
    • Carly Binding – Alright With Me
  • Best Urban Album: Nesian Mystik – Polysaturated
    • P Money – Big Things
    • Deceptikonz – Elimination
  • Best Folk Album: not awarded
  • Best Music Video: Joe Lonie – Sophie (Goodshirt)
    • Che Fu – Misty Frequencies
    • Chris Graham / Bic Runga – Something Good (Bic Runga)
  • Outstanding International Achievement: The Datsuns
  • Best Mana Reo Album: Ngahiwi Apanui – E Tau Nei
    • Hareruia Aperama – Waiata of Bob Marley Vol 2
    • Adam Whauwhau – He Hua O Roto
  • Best Mana Maori Album: Upper Hutt Posse – Te Reo Maori Remixes
    • Soul Paua – Pohewa
    • Mahinarangi Tocker – Hei Ha
    • Brother J – Be Bop A Nui
  • Highest Selling NZ Album (new category): Bic Runga – Beautiful Collision
  • Highest Selling NZ Single (new category): Katchafire – Giddy Up
  • Producer of the Year: Bic Runga – Beautiful Collision
    • P Money – Big Things (P Money)
    • Geoffrey Maddock – Riverhead (Goldenhorse)
  • Engineer of the Year: Clint Murphy And Dave Rhodes – Blindspott
    • Jeremy Greor – Carbon (50HZ)
    • Barbara Griffin – Love Not War (Annie Crummer)
    • Simon Holloway & Shane Mason – K'Lee (K'Lee)
  • Best Dance Album: Salmonella Dub – Outside The Dubplates
    • Rhombus -Bass Player
    • Subware – Subware
  • Best Country Album: not awarded
  • Best Jazz Album:[10] Kevin Clark – Once Upon A Song I Flew
    • Twinset – It's A Summer Feeling
    • Matt Penman – The Unquiet
  • Best Gospel Album: not awarded
  • Best Pacific Island Album (new category): Pacific Soul – Pacific Soul
    • Jamoa Jam – Tama Mai Le Pasifika
    • Lapi Mariner – Just Me
  • Best Roots Music Album (new category): Trinity Roots – True
    • Te Vaka – Nukukehe
    • Darren Watson – King Size
  • Best Classical Album: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra – Douglas Lilburn: The Three Symphonies
    • New Zealand Symphony Orchestra -Simon Boccanegra -Giuseppe V
    • New Zealand String Quartet – Beethoven Rasumovsky Quartet
  • Songwriter of the Year: Goodshirt – Sophie
    • Che Fu – Misty Frequencies
    • Nesian Mystik – It's On
  • Best Cover Design: Campbell Hooper-Johnson – 'Flock: The Best Of The Mutton Birds
    • Damian Alexander – Blindspott (Blindspott)
    • Spencer Levine – Trade Secrets (Dubious Brothers)
  • New Zealand Radio Programmer of the Year: Andi Dawkins – More FM Christchurch
    • Andrew Szusterman – Channel Z
    • John Budge – Classic Hits
    • Manu Taylor – Mai FM
  • Lifetime Achievement Award (new category): Dylan Taite

Performing arts

Television

  • 3 October: TV4 is replaced by C4.

Film

Internet

See: NZ Internet History

Sport

Athletics

  • Todd Stevens wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:30:09 on 3 May in Rotorua, while Maree Turner claims her first in the women's championship (2:55:40).

Basketball

  • The NBL won by the Wellington Saints who beat the Waikato Titans 97–88 in the final.
  • The Women's NBL was won by the Wellington Swish who beat the Waikato Lady Titans 86–82 in the final

Horse racing

Harness racing

Motor racing

  • 12 October – Scott Dixon wins the 2003 Indy Racing League Championship

Netball

Rugby union

  • 11 October – Auckland defeat Canterbury to win the Ranfurly Shield, ending Canterbury's run of 23 defences.
  • 11 October – New Zealand beat Italy (70–7) in pool D of the Rugby World Cup
  • 17 October – New Zealand beat Canada (68–6) in pool D of the Rugby World Cup
  • 24 October – New Zealand beat Tonga (91–7) in pool D of the Rugby World Cup
  • 2 November – New Zealand beat Wales (53–37) in pool D of the Rugby World Cup, finishing top of pool D
  • 8 November – New Zealand beat South Africa (29–9) in the first quarter-final of the Rugby World Cup
  • 15 November – New Zealand lose to Australia (10–22) in the first semi-final of the Rugby World Cup
  • 20 November – Playoff: (Loser SF1 v Loser SF2) New Zealand beat France (40–13) to take 3rd place in the Rugby World Cup

Rugby league

Shooting

  • Ballinger Belt –
    • Ian Shaw (United Kingdom)
    • Ross Geange (Masterton), fourth, top New Zealander[14]

Soccer

Yachting

Births

January–March

April–June

July–September

  • 4 July – Oliver Colloty, footballer
  • 15 July – Hannah Cotter, field hockey player
  • 20 July – Charlie Morrison, field hockey player
  • 28 July – Curtis Heaphy, cricketer
  • 10 August – Fin Conchie, association footballer
  • 13 August – Cameron Gray, swimmer
  • 23 August – Efficient, Thoroughbred racehorse
  • 23 September – Finn Surman, association footballer

October–December

Undated

Deaths

January

  • 6 January – Hirini Melbourne, composer, singer, writer and academic (born 1949)
  • 7 January – Charisma, eventing horse (foaled 1972)
  • 8 January – Mac Price, diplomat (born 1948)
  • 16 January – Bruce Juddery, journalist (born 1941)
  • 20 January – Cleone Rivett-Carnac, athlete (born 1933)
  • 21 January
    • James Clark, cricketer (born 1910)
    • Les Lock, racing cyclist (born 1929)
  • 22 January – Dylan Taite, drummer, rock music journalist (born 1937)
  • 29 January – Bill Sewell, poet (born 1951)
  • 30 January – Ron Buchan, lawn bowler (born 1907)

February

  • 1 February – Bill Meates, rugby union player (born 1923)
  • 2 February – Stan Cowman, cricket umpire (born 1923)
  • 13 February – Bright Williams, last surviving New Zealand-born veteran of World War I (born 1897)
  • 22 February – Sir Frank Callaway, music educator and administrator (born 1919)
  • 25 February – Marion Robinson, physiologist, nutritionist (born 1923)

March

  • 7 March – Sid Scales, cartoonist (born 1916)
  • 19 March – Tori Reid, rugby union player (born 1912)
  • 27 March – Edwin Carr, composer (born 1926)

April

  • 5 April – Irihapeti Ramsden, nurse, educator (born 1946)
  • 7 April – John Rymer, Anglican cleric (born 1924)
  • 8 April – Harry Frazer, rugby union player (born 1916)
  • 14 April – John Kent, cartoonist (born 1937)
  • 22 April – Ian Marshall, association football player and coach (born 1942)
  • 27 April – Albert Richards, athlete (born 1924)
  • 29 April – Ron Barclay, politician (born 1914)
  • 30 April – Possum Bourne, rally driver (born 1956)

May

June

  • 2 June – Kenneth Maddock, anthropology academic (born 1937)
  • 5 June – Alister Abernethy, trade unionist, politician and public servant (born 1920)
  • 9 June – Jack Henry, silviculturist and businessman (born 1917)
  • 12 June – Monty Monteith, clergyman (born 1904)
  • 14 June – Joyce Powell, cricketer (born 1922)
  • 15 June – David Holt, association footballer (born 1952)
  • 20 June – Thomas Freeman, cricketer (born 1923)

July

  • 6 July – Peter Howden, cricketer (born 1911)
  • 13 July – Lin Colling, rugby union player, coach and administrator (born 1946)
  • 20 July – Bill Schaefer, field hockey player (born 1925)
  • 21 July – John Davies, athlete (born 1938)
  • 24 July – Dame Ella Campbell, botanist (born 1910)
  • 25 July – Joan Talbot, fashion designer and retailer (born 1927)
  • 30 July – Agnes Ell, cricketer (born 1917)

August

September

  • 2 September – Dame Ann Ballin, clinical psychologist, victims' rights advocate and disabilities campaigner (born 1932)
  • 5 September – Sir Richard Harrison, politician (born 1921)
  • 7 September
    • David Spence, mathematician (born 1926)
    • Merv Wellington, politician (born 1940)
  • 11 September – Frances King, cricketer (born 1980)
  • 15 September – Anthony Treadwell, architect (born 1922)
  • 19 September
    • Max Brown, writer (born 1916)
    • Adrian Shelford, rugby league player (born 1964)
  • 23 September – Dennis McEldowney, writer and editor (born 1926)
  • 25 September – Bill Wolfgramm, musician (born 1925)

October

  • 3 October
  • 18 October – Frank O'Flynn, politician (born 1918)
  • 31 October – Lindsay Weir, cricketer (born 1908)

November

  • 5 November – Muriel Boswell, netball player (born 1915)
  • 12 November – Cameron Duncan, filmmaker (born 1986)
  • 15 November – Tom Kneebone, cabaret performer and actor (born 1932)
  • 16 November – Theo Allen, athlete (born 1914)
  • 23 November – Nick Carter, cyclist (born 1924)
  • 24 November – Millie Khan, lawn bowler (born 1938)
  • 26 November – Brian Wybourne, physics academic (born 1935)

December

  • 17 December – James Coe, artist, art teacher, industrial designer (born 1917)
  • 25 December – Patrick O'Farrell, history academic (born 1933)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Historical population estimates tables". Statistics New Zealand. Archived from the original on 31 December 2017.
  2. ^ The Hon Dame Silvia Cartwright, PCNZM, DBE, QSO gg.govt.nz. Retrieved 10 April 2012
  3. ^ "New Zealand is home to 3 million people and 60 million sheep – Population Mythbusters". Statistics New Zealand. 22 June 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  4. ^ Mussen, Deidre (6 June 2013). "Tenth anniversary of fatal plane crash". The Press. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Troop deployments abroad: parliamentary consent". New Zealand Parliament website. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  6. ^ "A magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred 70 km west of Te Anau, New Zealand on Fri Aug 22 2003 12:12 AM. The quake was 24 kilometres deep and the shaking was severe close to the quake". www.geonet.org.nz. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  7. ^ "Declared States of Emergency". www.civildefence.govt.nz. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  8. ^ Toll Holdings tightens its grip on Tranz Rail International Railway Journal November 2003 page 4
  9. ^ "2003 New Zealand Music Awards". Web page. RIANZ. Archived from the original on 20 December 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  10. ^ "Kevin Clark: Once Upon A Song I Flew". New Zealand Herald. 21 April 2003. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  11. ^ "New Zealand Trotting Cup (Group 1)". Harness Racing New Zealand. 3 April 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
  12. ^ "Auckland Cup (Group 1)". Harness Racing New Zealand. 3 April 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
  13. ^ "New Zealand Free-For-All (Group 1)". Harness Racing New Zealand. 3 April 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
  14. ^ "New Zealand champion shot / Ballinger Belt winners". National Rifle Association of New Zealand. Archived from the original on 25 January 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
  15. ^ "Chatham Cup Records". nzsoccer.com. Archived from the original on 14 March 2009.

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