{"id":67699,"date":"2024-11-07T10:40:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T01:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/07\/treaty-of-waitangi-new-zealand-founding-document-changes-bill"},"modified":"2024-11-07T10:40:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T01:40:19","slug":"why-is-a-bill-looking-at-new-zealands-founding-document-causing-major-upset-among-maori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67699","title":{"rendered":"Why is a bill looking at New Zealand\u2019s founding document causing major upset among M\u0101ori?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill introduced in parliament this week wants to reinterpret Treaty of Waitangi, which upholds M\u0101ori rights<\/p>\n<p>Since New Zealand\u2019s right-wing coalition government took office a year ago, its policy direction for M\u0101ori has dominated headlines, but one proposal in particular has faced strident backlash: the Treaty Principles Bill.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was introduced by the minor libertarian Act party to parliament on Thursday. It seeks to radically alter the way the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/new-zealands-treaty-of-waitangi-explained-in-30-seconds#:~:text=The%20Treaty%20of%20Waitangi%20%2F%20Te,developed%20and%20included%20in%20legislation.\">Treaty of Waitangi<\/a>, New Zealand\u2019s founding document and which upholds M\u0101ori rights, is interpreted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/07\/treaty-of-waitangi-new-zealand-founding-document-changes-bill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill introduced in parliament this week wants to reinterpret Treaty of Waitangi, which upholds M\u0101ori rightsSince New Zealand\u2019s right-wing coalition government took office a year ago, its policy direction for M\u0101ori has dominated headlines, but one propo&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67699","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=67699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67700,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67699\/revisions\/67700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}