This web feature was written by Steve Watters and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.
Links
- Te Ara - The encyclopedia of New Zealand
- NZ on Screen’s Best of the ‘80s collection
- A decade in the media - 1980s (set on Digital NZ by Dylan Owen)
Books
- Bronwyn Dalley and Gavin McLean (eds), Frontier of dreams: the story of New Zealand, Hodder Moa Beckett, Auckland, 2005
- Alison Dench, Essential dates: a timeline of New Zealand history, Random House, Auckland, 2005
- New Zealand Official Yearbook, Department of Statistics, Wellington (annual)
- Ron Palenski, On this day in New Zealand, Hodder Moa, Auckland, 2010
