{"id":67681,"date":"2024-11-06T11:53:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T02:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/06\/new-zealand-treaty-of-waitangi-founding-document-changes-bill-parliament"},"modified":"2024-11-06T11:53:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T02:53:31","slug":"controversial-bill-to-reinterpret-new-zealands-founding-document-reaches-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67681","title":{"rendered":"Controversial bill to reinterpret New Zealand\u2019s founding document reaches parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The widely criticised bill aims to redefine Treaty of Waitangi principles that guide relations between M\u0101ori  and ruling authorities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/new-zealands-treaty-of-waitangi-explained-in-30-seconds\">New Zealand\u2019s Treaty of Waitangi explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A controversial bill that seeks to radically change how New Zealand\u2019s treaty between M\u0101ori and the Crown is interpreted in modern times will be introduced to parliament on Thursday, nearly two weeks ahead of its initial schedule.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/new-zealands-treaty-of-waitangi-explained-in-30-seconds\">The Treaty of Waitangi<\/a> is considered New Zealand\u2019s founding document and is instrumental in upholding M\u0101ori rights. The bill will be tabled in parliament by the libertarian Act party, a minor partner in New Zealand\u2019s coalition government, which has regularly called for an end to \u201cdivision by race\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/06\/new-zealand-treaty-of-waitangi-founding-document-changes-bill-parliament\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The widely criticised bill aims to redefine Treaty of Waitangi principles that guide relations between M\u0101ori  and ruling authoritiesNew Zealand\u2019s Treaty of Waitangi explained in 30 secondsA controversial bill that seeks to radically change how New Zeal&#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-67681","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\/67681","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=67681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67682,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67681\/revisions\/67682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}