{"id":48469,"date":"2022-09-14T10:52:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T01:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/14\/new-zealand-mps-pay-tribute-to-queen-mixed-with-sharp-rebukes-of-colonial-past"},"modified":"2022-09-14T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T01:52:15","slug":"new-zealand-mps-pay-tribute-to-queen-mixed-with-sharp-rebukes-of-colonial-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48469","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand MPs pay tribute to Queen mixed with sharp rebukes of colonial past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While all lawmakers offered condolences to the royal family, several also discussed the monarchy\u2019s fraught and complex history<\/p>\n<p>As New Zealand\u2019s parliament gathered to pay tribute to the Queen, honours and admiration were mixed with sharp criticism of a monarchy built on \u201cstolen land, stolen resources, and stolen treasure\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, parliament held a special debate to allow politicians of all parties to acknowledge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/sep\/13\/queen-makes-final-journey-to-buckingham-palace-before-state-funeral\">the monarch\u2019s death<\/a>. While all offered condolences to the royal family for their loss, a number of MPs also discussed the monarchy\u2019s fraught and complex history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/14\/new-zealand-mps-pay-tribute-to-queen-mixed-with-sharp-rebukes-of-colonial-past\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While all lawmakers offered condolences to the royal family, several also discussed the monarchy\u2019s fraught and complex historyAs New Zealand\u2019s parliament gathered to pay tribute to the Queen, honours and admiration were mixed with sharp criticism of a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,897,1611,56,2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-monarchy","category-new-zealand","category-queen-elizabeth-ii"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48469","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48470,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48469\/revisions\/48470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}