{"id":11380,"date":"2019-11-22T14:04:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T05:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/22\/on-every-issue-important-to-maori-this-government-is-failing"},"modified":"2019-11-22T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T05:04:27","slug":"on-every-issue-important-to-maori-this-government-is-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11380","title":{"rendered":"On every issue important to M\u0101ori this government is failing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only in its absence do I miss the M\u0101ori party, which achieved huge amounts despite a system stacked against it <\/p>\n<p>New Zealand is probably the only country in the Anglosphere where the Indigenous people make up a disproportionate share of the parliament. M\u0101ori make up only 16% of the country\u2019s population, but make up 23% of our representatives, holding 27 seats in the 120-seat House. M\u0101ori lead every single parliamentary party as well, bar Jacinda Ardern\u2019s Labour.<\/p>\n<p>You might struggle to find a country where a minority exerts more governing power, and demographic defiance, than M\u0101ori in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/22\/on-every-issue-important-to-maori-this-government-is-failing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only in its absence do I miss the M\u0101ori party, which achieved huge amounts despite a system stacked against it New Zealand is probably the only country in the Anglosphere where the Indigenous people make up a disproportionate share of the parliament. M&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11381,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions\/11381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}