{"id":58312,"date":"2023-09-12T14:09:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T05:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/12\/whakaari-white-island-volcano-eruption-tourism-agencies-negligence-charges-dropped"},"modified":"2023-09-12T14:09:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T05:09:59","slug":"whakaari-white-island-eruption-negligence-charges-dropped-against-two-tourism-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58312","title":{"rendered":"Whakaari White Island eruption: negligence charges dropped against two tourism agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of six defendants successfully applied on Tuesday to have charges over alleged workplace health and safety breaches dropped<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A judge has dismissed charges against two of the three tourism agencies accused of negligence in the lead-up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/30\/white-island-volcano-new-zealand-authorities-charge-13-parties-over-disaster\">New Zealand volcanic eruption<\/a> that killed 14 Australians.<\/p>\n<p>Three tourism businesses and the three owners of Whakaari, also known as White Island, had originally gone on trial in July over alleged workplace health and safety breaches.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/12\/whakaari-white-island-volcano-eruption-tourism-agencies-negligence-charges-dropped\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of six defendants successfully applied on Tuesday to have charges over alleged workplace health and safety breaches droppedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA judge has dismissed charges against two of the thr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"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":[41,56,989],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-white-island-volcano"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58312","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\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58313,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58312\/revisions\/58313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}