{"id":27608,"date":"2021-02-01T09:34:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T00:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/jacinda-ardern-faces-waitangi-day-reckoning-with-maori-as-progress-stalls"},"modified":"2021-02-01T09:34:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T00:34:39","slug":"jacinda-ardern-faces-waitangi-day-reckoning-with-maori-as-progress-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27608","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern faces Waitangi Day reckoning with M\u0101ori as progress stalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three years after the prime minister asked M\u0101ori to hold her to account, many are disillusioned with her government<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/oct\/25\/jacinda-ardern-takes-child-poverty-role-in-new-zealand-ministry\">In an oft-repeated story<\/a> New Zealand\u2019s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has recalled how growing up in the small, largely M\u0101ori town of Murupara, she would see children going to school hungry, and with no shoes on their feet.<\/p>\n<p>It was these scenes of entrenched inequality and poverty, often along racial lines, that drove a teenage Ardern into the Labour party, where she has dedicated herself to combating child poverty.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/jacinda-ardern-faces-waitangi-day-reckoning-with-maori-as-progress-stalls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years after the prime minister asked M\u0101ori to hold her to account, many are disillusioned with her governmentIn an oft-repeated story New Zealand\u2019s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has recalled how growing up in the small, largely M\u0101ori town of Mu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1814,"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":[41,503,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indigenous-peoples","category-maori","category-new-zealand","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\/27608","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\/1814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27610,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27608\/revisions\/27610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}