{"id":60357,"date":"2023-12-05T10:31:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T01:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/05\/new-zealand-protest-thousands-maori-government-policies"},"modified":"2023-12-05T10:31:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T01:31:29","slug":"new-zealand-thousands-protest-against-new-government-policies-that-unravel-maori-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60357","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: thousands protest against new government policies that unravel M\u0101ori gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new government recently announced it would dial back use of M\u0101ori language in government organisations, and scrap M\u0101ori Health Authority<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of M\u0101ori protesters took to the streets across New Zealand on Tuesday morning, objecting to policies of the new government that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/02\/fears-for-maori-rights-as-new-zealand-government-reviews-waitangi-treaty\">M\u0101ori say will unravel decades of indigenous progress.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Protesters blocked traffic on key roads and lined streets in towns and cities while calling for the coalition to scrap plans to review the Treaty of Waitangi, the country\u2019s 180-year-old founding document which was signed between the Crown and M\u0101ori leaders.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/05\/new-zealand-protest-thousands-maori-government-policies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new government recently announced it would dial back use of M\u0101ori language in government organisations, and scrap M\u0101ori Health AuthorityThousands of M\u0101ori protesters took to the streets across New Zealand on Tuesday morning, objecting to policies o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3833,"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-60357","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\/60357","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\/3833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60358,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60357\/revisions\/60358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}