{"id":61695,"date":"2024-02-06T15:32:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T06:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/amid-jeers-and-boos-strained-maori-relations-with-government-dominate-national-holiday"},"modified":"2024-02-06T15:32:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T06:32:31","slug":"amid-jeers-and-boos-strained-maori-relations-with-government-dominate-national-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61695","title":{"rendered":"Amid jeers and boos, strained M\u0101ori relations with government dominate national holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record crowds gather for country\u2019s national day as fears of a wind back of M\u0101ori rights lead to angry exchanges<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/new-zealands-treaty-of-waitangi-explained-in-30-seconds\">The Treaty of Waitangi explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the sun arced above the Waitangi grounds, boring down on the lush green peninsula where M\u0101ori and the British Crown forged a nation in 1840, New Zealand\u2019s new government faced the heat \u2013 less from above and more from the blaze of alarm over its plans for M\u0101ori, which many fear could result in a rollback of rights.<\/p>\n<p>Political leaders gathered at the grounds this week to celebrate Waitangi Day, New Zealand\u2019s national day, which marks the signing of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/new-zealands-treaty-of-waitangi-explained-in-30-seconds\">Treaty of Waitangi\/Te Tiriti o Waitangi<\/a> in 1840. The treaty is considered a founding document of New Zealand and upholds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/m-ori\">M\u0101ori<\/a> rights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/amid-jeers-and-boos-strained-maori-relations-with-government-dominate-national-holiday\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record crowds gather for country\u2019s national day as fears of a wind back of M\u0101ori rights lead to angry exchangesThe Treaty of Waitangi explained in 30 secondsAs the sun arced above the Waitangi grounds, boring down on the lush green peninsula where M\u0101or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4125,"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":[41,2765,897,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christopher-luxon","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61695","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\/4125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61696,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61695\/revisions\/61696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}