← → The following lists events that happened during 1980 in New Zealand.

The 39th New Zealand Parliament continued.

The third National Party government was in power.

An attempt by high-ranking ministers Derek Quigley, Jim McLay, and Jim Bolger to replace Muldoon as prime minister (known as the "colonels' coup") with the deputy prime minister Talboys collapsed as a result of Talboys' unwillingness to actively campaign against Muldoon.

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