{"id":61283,"date":"2024-01-19T09:48:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T00:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/19\/new-zealand-maori-king-nationwide-meeting-rare-why-news-details-indigenous-rights"},"modified":"2024-01-19T09:48:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T00:48:29","slug":"new-zealands-maori-king-has-called-a-rare-nationwide-meeting-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61283","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s M\u0101ori king has called a rare nationwide meeting. Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori leaders and others are expected to attend a rare national meeting due to concerns about the new government\u2019s policies on indigenous rights<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 3,000 M\u0101ori leaders, tribal representatives and a number of politicians are expected to meet this week, after the Kiingitanga* \u2013 the M\u0101ori king movement \u2013 called for a rare national meeting amid simmering tensions over the new National-led government\u2019s direction for M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII issued the extremely rare royal proclamation asking iwi (tribes) to meet to \u201cunify the nation and ensure all voices are heard when holding the new coalition government to account\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/19\/new-zealand-maori-king-nationwide-meeting-rare-why-news-details-indigenous-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori leaders and others are expected to attend a rare national meeting due to concerns about the new government\u2019s policies on indigenous rightsAn estimated 3,000 M\u0101ori leaders, tribal representatives and a number of politicians are expected to meet th&#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":[41,897,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61283","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=61283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61284,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61283\/revisions\/61284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}