{"id":27899,"date":"2021-02-06T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/feb\/06\/new-zealands-maori-tribes-deserve-recognition-for-their-part-in-vanquishingcovid-19"},"modified":"2021-02-06T02:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:00:17","slug":"new-zealands-maori-tribes-deserve-recognition-for-their-part-in-vanquishing-covid-19-morgan-godfery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27899","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s M\u0101ori tribes deserve recognition for their part in vanquishing Covid-19 | Morgan Godfery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori memories of past epidemics meant iwi were instrumental in forcing Jacinda Ardern\u2019s government to act quickly<\/p>\n<p>In the space of a few days in 2017 New Zealand\u2019s Labour caucus made Jacinda Ardern their leader. In the space of a month the country made her their prime minister, and in the space of a few years the rest of the English-speaking world would turn to her as a global leader. That might sound clich\u00e9, and in a small sense it is, but it captures the adoration and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/mar\/31\/the-observer-view-on-jacinda-ardern-setting-a-global-standard-in-leadership\">esteem in which large parts of New Zealand and the world hold Ardern<\/a>. She has apparently committed to a social democratic programme of old, from public housing to subsidised tertiary education, and \u2013 more importantly \u2013 she has dealt successfully with the virus. Global business leaders and others rightly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/08\/new-zealands-covid-19-response-the-best-in-the-world-say-global-business-leaders\">rate New Zealand\u2019s Covid-19 response as the best in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But is it equally right to simply credit Ardern and her government for this success?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/feb\/06\/new-zealands-maori-tribes-deserve-recognition-for-their-part-in-vanquishingcovid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori memories of past epidemics meant iwi were instrumental in forcing Jacinda Ardern\u2019s government to act quicklyIn the space of a few days in 2017 New Zealand\u2019s Labour caucus made Jacinda Ardern their leader. In the space of a month the country made &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"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-27899","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\/27899","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\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27900,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27899\/revisions\/27900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}