{"id":27661,"date":"2021-02-02T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/feb\/02\/covid-19-has-illustrated-new-zealands-hypocritical-attitude-to-maori-health"},"modified":"2021-02-02T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:00:12","slug":"the-pandemic-has-illustrated-new-zealands-hypocritical-attitude-to-maori-health-emma-espiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27661","title":{"rendered":"The pandemic has illustrated New Zealand&#8217;s hypocritical attitude to M\u0101ori health | Emma Espiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prioritising M\u0101ori for the vaccine would be a concrete sign the government is committed to improving our health<\/p>\n<p>A M\u0101ori doctor on the government\u2019s immunisation implementation advisory group, Dr Rawiri Jansen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/te-manu-korihi\/434846\/covid-19-maori-to-be-prioritised-for-vaccination\">said recently<\/a> that M\u0101ori would be prioritised in the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out. A predictable outcry ensued, with familiar protestations about \u201crace-based policy\u201d and convenient ignorance displayed about the other priority groups being discussed \u2013 the elderly, those with known risk factors, front-line workers.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/24\/new-zealand-records-first-covid-community-case-intwo-months\">first Covid-19 community case in months<\/a> was confirmed two weeks out from Waitangi Day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/29\/new-zealand-government-in-a-bind-over-waitangi-as-maori-leaders-pull-out\">The new case is awkwardly located in Northland<\/a> \u2013 the site of the annual commemorations of the signing of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, an event attended by politicians, iwi leaders, wh\u0101nau, lobbyists and tourists from all over the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/feb\/02\/covid-19-has-illustrated-new-zealands-hypocritical-attitude-to-maori-health\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prioritising M\u0101ori for the vaccine would be a concrete sign the government is committed to improving our healthA M\u0101ori doctor on the government\u2019s immunisation implementation advisory group, Dr Rawiri Jansen, said recently that M\u0101ori would be prioritise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":926,"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":[41,1066,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","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\/27661","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\/926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27662,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27661\/revisions\/27662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}