{"id":27495,"date":"2021-01-29T09:08:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T00:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/29\/new-zealand-government-in-a-bind-over-waitangi-as-maori-leaders-pull-out"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T20:56:11","slug":"new-zealand-government-in-a-bind-over-waitangi-as-maori-leaders-pull-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27495","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand government in a bind over Waitangi as M\u0101ori leaders pull out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Navigating this year\u2019s Waitangi Day celebrations is proving a challenge for Jacinda Ardern amid fears of a Covid-19 outbreak<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between Jacinda Ardern\u2019s government and M\u0101ori interests over Waitangi have been highlighted before it has even begun, following the withdrawal of the M\u0101ori party and <em>iwi<\/em> leaders from the event over coronavirus concerns.<\/p>\n<p>In the light of positive Covid-19 cases identified in Northland\/Whangarei, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/28\/new-zealand-covid-test-centres-quarantine-hotel-closes-auckland\">M\u0101ori leaders opted to pull out of attending<\/a> the five days of talks and celebrations marking the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/29\/new-zealand-government-in-a-bind-over-waitangi-as-maori-leaders-pull-out\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navigating this year\u2019s Waitangi Day celebrations is proving a challenge for Jacinda Ardern amid fears of a Covid-19 outbreakTensions between Jacinda Ardern\u2019s government and M\u0101ori interests over Waitangi have been highlighted before it has even begun, f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1833,"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":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","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\/27495","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\/1833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27563,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27495\/revisions\/27563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}