{"id":18696,"date":"2020-05-26T11:56:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T02:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/26\/i-am-not-maori-new-zealand-mp-corrects-party-deputy-leader-amid-diversity-criticism"},"modified":"2020-05-26T11:56:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T02:56:06","slug":"i-am-not-mori-new-zealand-mp-corrects-party-deputy-leader-amid-diversity-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18696","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I am not M&#257;ori&#8217;: New Zealand MP corrects party deputy leader amid diversity criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaffe by Nikki Kaye came after concerns were raised about the new National party frontbench\u2019s lack of diversity<\/p>\n<p>The new deputy leader of the National party has misidentified one of her frontbench MPs as M\u0101ori when defending the party\u2019s lack of diversity.<\/p>\n<p>The MP, Paul Goldsmith, was forced to clarify Nikki Kaye\u2019s comments and state that he was not, in fact, M\u0101ori. \u201cLet me make it quite clear, I am not M\u0101ori myself,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=12334918\">Goldsmith said.<\/a> \u201cI don\u2019t claim to be M\u0101ori myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/26\/i-am-not-maori-new-zealand-mp-corrects-party-deputy-leader-amid-diversity-criticism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaffe by Nikki Kaye came after concerns were raised about the new National party frontbench\u2019s lack of diversityThe new deputy leader of the National party has misidentified one of her frontbench MPs as M\u0101ori when defending the party\u2019s lack of diversity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"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":[41,897,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696","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\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18697,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696\/revisions\/18697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}