{"id":66305,"date":"2024-08-20T13:09:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T04:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/20\/new-zealand-1news-verian-poll-racial-tension"},"modified":"2024-08-20T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T04:09:25","slug":"nearly-half-of-new-zealanders-say-government-policies-increasing-racial-tensions-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66305","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of New Zealanders say government policies increasing racial tensions, poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1News Verian poll comes amid growing concern the coalition\u2019s policy direction will wind back M\u0101ori rights<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of New Zealanders believe the government\u2019s policies have increased racial tensions, new polling shows, as pressure mounts on the government over policy changes that many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/29\/maori-leaders-new-zealand-coalition-government-policy-changes\">fear will undermine M\u0101ori rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2024\/08\/19\/poll-just-10-think-govts-policies-reducing-racial-tensions\/\">1News Verian<\/a> poll released on Monday found 46% of voters believed racial tensions have worsened as a result of the coalition\u2019s policies, while 37% said there had been no difference and 10% thought tensions had reduced. Another 7% of respondents said they didn\u2019t know or preferred not to comment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/20\/new-zealand-1news-verian-poll-racial-tension\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1News Verian poll comes amid growing concern the coalition\u2019s policy direction will wind back M\u0101ori rightsNearly half of New Zealanders believe the government\u2019s policies have increased racial tensions, new polling shows, as pressure mounts on the govern&#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":[41,2765,897,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christopher-luxon","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66305","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=66305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66306,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66305\/revisions\/66306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}