{"id":36831,"date":"2021-09-14T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/14\/new-zealand-maori-party-launches-petition-to-change-countrys-name-to-aotearoa"},"modified":"2021-09-14T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:46:14","slug":"new-zealand-maori-party-launches-petition-to-change-countrys-name-to-aotearoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36831","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand M\u0101ori party launches petition to change country\u2019s name to Aotearoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Party wants all original te reo M\u0101ori place names to be officially restored across the country in the next five years<\/p>\n<p>The M\u0101ori party has launched a petition to change New Zealand\u2019s official name to Aotearoa, the te reo M\u0101ori, indigenous language name for the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s well past time that Te Reo M\u0101ori was restored to its rightful place as the first and official language of this country,\u201d Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori leaders, Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maoriparty.org.nz\/nz_to_aotearoa\">in a statement launching the petition<\/a>. \u201cWe are a Polynesian country \u2013 we are Aotearoa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/14\/new-zealand-maori-party-launches-petition-to-change-countrys-name-to-aotearoa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Party wants all original te reo M\u0101ori place names to be officially restored across the country in the next five yearsThe M\u0101ori party has launched a petition to change New Zealand\u2019s official name to Aotearoa, the te reo M\u0101ori, indigenous language name f&#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":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36831","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\/36831","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=36831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36832,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36831\/revisions\/36832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}