{"id":65813,"date":"2024-07-23T13:22:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T04:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/23\/pharmac-director-quits-over-treaty-of-waitangi-maori-rights-rollback"},"modified":"2024-07-23T13:22:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T04:22:52","slug":"director-of-new-zealands-pharmaceutical-funding-agency-quits-over-rollback-of-maori-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65813","title":{"rendered":"Director of New Zealand\u2019s pharmaceutical funding agency quits over rollback of M\u0101ori rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The right-wing government had told Pharmac that it no longer needed to consider the Treaty of Waitangi in its funding decisions<\/p>\n<p>A director of New Zealand\u2019s medicine funding agency Pharmac has resigned in protest of a government directive telling the agency that it no longer needed to consider the Treaty of Waitangi, the country\u2019s founding document which upholds M\u0101ori rights, in its funding decisions.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/pharmac.govt.nz\/assets\/Uploads\/Letter-of-Expectations-2024-25.pdf\">letter<\/a> to Pharmac, the associate health minister and leader of the libertarian Act party David Seymour set out his expectations of the government agency, including his thoughts on how the principles of Treaty of Waitangi, or Te Tiriti o Waitangi, should be applied.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/23\/pharmac-director-quits-over-treaty-of-waitangi-maori-rights-rollback\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The right-wing government had told Pharmac that it no longer needed to consider the Treaty of Waitangi in its funding decisionsA director of New Zealand\u2019s medicine funding agency Pharmac has resigned in protest of a government directive telling the age&#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":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65813","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\/65813","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=65813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65814,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65813\/revisions\/65814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}