{"id":61687,"date":"2024-02-06T08:40:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T23:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/new-zealands-treaty-of-waitangi-explained-in-30-seconds"},"modified":"2024-02-06T08:40:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T23:40:54","slug":"new-zealands-treaty-of-waitangi-explained-in-30-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61687","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s Treaty of Waitangi explained in 30 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government to review principles of founding document, raising fears over rollback of M\u0101ori rights<\/p>\n<p>The Treaty of Waitangi \/ Te Tiriti o Waitangi \u2013 considered New Zealand\u2019s founding document \u2013 was <a href=\"https:\/\/teara.govt.nz\/en\/te-tiriti-o-waitangi-the-treaty-of-waitangi\">signed in 1840<\/a> by the British Crown and about 540 M\u0101ori chiefs to establish a nation state. While not a legal document, some treaty principles have been developed and included in legislation. The treaty covers issues including land and cultural rights and M\u0101ori relations with the Crown. Interpretation of the treaty is often contested and New Zealand\u2019s coalition government plans to review<strong> <\/strong>the treaty\u2019s principles, raising fears over a roll-back of M\u0101ori rights.<\/p>\n<p>There is an <a href=\"https:\/\/nzhistory.govt.nz\/politics\/treaty\/read-the-Treaty\/differences-between-the-texts\">English and a M\u0101ori version<\/a> of the treaty. These documents have fundamental differences, for example in the English version, M\u0101ori cede sovereignty to the Crown; in the M\u0101ori text they give governance to the Crown. The vast majority of M\u0101ori chiefs signed only the M\u0101ori version.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/new-zealands-treaty-of-waitangi-explained-in-30-seconds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government to review principles of founding document, raising fears over rollback of M\u0101ori rightsThe Treaty of Waitangi \/ Te Tiriti o Waitangi \u2013 considered New Zealand\u2019s founding document \u2013 was signed in 1840 by the British Crown and about 540 M\u0101ori ch&#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-61687","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\/61687","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=61687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61688,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61687\/revisions\/61688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}