{"id":45200,"date":"2022-06-06T10:52:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T01:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/06\/pivotal-maori-leader-tipene-oregan-made-member-of-order-of-new-zealand"},"modified":"2022-06-06T10:52:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T01:52:52","slug":"pivotal-maori-leader-tipene-oregan-made-member-of-order-of-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45200","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pivotal\u2019 M\u0101ori leader Tipene O\u2019Regan made member of Order of New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Champion of M\u0101ori rights honoured by Queen for life of work dedicated to improving \u2018economic, cultural and social standing of M\u0101ori communities\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A M\u0101ori leader, educator and historian who has dedicated his life to the betterment of M\u0101ori and was instrumental in developing M\u0101ori fishing interests has been awarded New Zealand\u2019s highest honour.<\/p>\n<p>T\u0101 (Sir) Tipene O\u2019Regan, 83, has been made a member of the Order of New Zealand as part of the Queen\u2019s birthday honours list. O\u2019Regan was awarded the distinction alongside Dame Silvia Cartwright, a former governor general and the first woman in New Zealand to become a high court judge.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/06\/pivotal-maori-leader-tipene-oregan-made-member-of-order-of-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champion of M\u0101ori rights honoured by Queen for life of work dedicated to improving \u2018economic, cultural and social standing of M\u0101ori communities\u2019A M\u0101ori leader, educator and historian who has dedicated his life to the betterment of M\u0101ori and was instrum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indigenous-peoples","category-maori","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\/45200","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45201,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45200\/revisions\/45201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}