{"id":24159,"date":"2020-10-26T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/26\/australia-is-part-of-a-black-region-it-should-recognise-kanaky-ambition-in-new-caledonia"},"modified":"2020-10-26T04:00:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T19:00:02","slug":"australia-is-part-of-a-black-region-it-should-recognise-kanaky-ambition-in-new-caledonia-hamish-mcdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24159","title":{"rendered":"Australia is part of a Black region, it should recognise Kanaky ambition in New Caledonia | Hamish McDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s un-nuanced support for French dominion is unhelpful in a region where decolonisation is unfinished business<\/p>\n<p>Kicking the can down the road is a time-honoured solution to deadlocks over statehood and identity: hoping time, consultation and money can end up in agreement.<\/p>\n<p>But in New Caledonia, the French territory of 290,000 people in the Melanesian island chain to Australia\u2019s north-east, the road is running out after more than two decades of can-kicking.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/26\/australia-is-part-of-a-black-region-it-should-recognise-kanaky-ambition-in-new-caledonia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s un-nuanced support for French dominion is unhelpful in a region where decolonisation is unfinished businessKicking the can down the road is a time-honoured solution to deadlocks over statehood and identity: hoping time, consultation and mon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1647,"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":[41,43,749,526,1102,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-colonialism","category-france","category-new-caledonia","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24159","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\/1647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24160,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24159\/revisions\/24160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}