{"id":32025,"date":"2021-05-12T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/12\/maori-party-co-leader-ejected-parliament-racism-row-haka"},"modified":"2021-05-12T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T05:07:09","slug":"maori-party-co-leader-ejected-from-parliament-after-performing-haka-in-racism-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32025","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101ori party co-leader ejected from parliament after performing haka in racism row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rawiri Waititi had accused the opposition of racism and was asked to sit down by the speaker, but instead performed the ceremonial dance<\/p>\n<p>M\u0101ori party co-leader Rawiri Waititi has been thrown out of New Zealand\u2019s parliament after denouncing rhetoric from the opposition as racist and performing a haka.<\/p>\n<p>Waititi said the opposition was inciting racism across New Zealand through its stance on M\u0101ori healthcare. The haka is a ceremonial dance for M\u0101ori, the indigenous people of New Zealand \u2013 it can represent a challenge, and is sometimes performed in moments of conflict.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/12\/maori-party-co-leader-ejected-parliament-racism-row-haka\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawiri Waititi had accused the opposition of racism and was asked to sit down by the speaker, but instead performed the ceremonial danceM\u0101ori party co-leader Rawiri Waititi has been thrown out of New Zealand\u2019s parliament after denouncing rhetoric from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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":[41,897,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","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\/32025","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32026,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32025\/revisions\/32026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}