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Charlotte Badger

Charlotte Badger is credited with being one of the first two European women to settle in New Zealand. Sentenced to seven years penal servitude in New South Wales in 1796, she gave birth to a daughter at the Parramatta female factory.

New Zealand sends combat forces to Vietnam

New Zealand's involvement in Vietnam was highly controversial and attracted protest and condemnation at home and abroad. For a growing number of New Zealanders the war triggered a re-examination of our foreign policy and identity.

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This map shows the state borders of the Commonwealth of Australia at the time it entered the First World War in 1914.

Following the discovery of gold at Gabriels Gully in Otago (1861), thousands of miners left Australia’s main goldfields in Victoria to try their luck in the South Island. Further discoveries were made at Wakamarina in Marlborough (1864) and at Greenstone Creek on the West Coast (1864). Between 1861 and 1867 there were 50,000 new arrivals from Australia. Many left as the rush slowed but over 11,000 stayed. A number of these arrivals became prominent New Zealanders, including future premiers Julius Vogel and Richard Seddon.

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Portrait of George Gipps, Governor of New South Wales, c1847.

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The Australia–New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement, better known as CER, was New Zealand’s first comprehensive bilateral trade agreement, and one of the first agreements of this kind in the world.

Although CER came into force on 1 January 1983, the agreement was not formally signed until 28 March that year, by the New Zealand High Commissioner in Canberra, Laurie Francis, and Lionel Bowen, Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. CER built upon the New Zealand Australia Free Trade Agreement, which had been in place since 1966.