{"id":68764,"date":"2025-01-06T09:51:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/06\/waitangi-day-2025-record-crowds-maori-policy-new-zealand"},"modified":"2025-01-06T09:51:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:51:35","slug":"waitangi-day-record-crowds-expected-amid-tensions-over-maori-policy-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68764","title":{"rendered":"Waitangi Day: record crowds expected amid tensions over M\u0101ori policy in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Event in February that commemorates signing of New Zealand\u2019s founding document expected to draw tens of thousands but PM will not attend<\/p>\n<p>Organisers of New Zealand\u2019s national day commemorating the signing of the country\u2019s founding treaty between M\u0101ori tribes and the British crown are expecting record attendance in 2025, following a year of rising tensions over the government\u2019s policy direction for M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n<p>In February, tens of thousands of people are expected to descend on Waitangi, in New Zealand\u2019s Northland region, to commemorate 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<\/a>, which was signed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/m-ori\">M\u0101ori<\/a> chiefs and the British Crown in 1840 and is instrumental in upholding M\u0101ori rights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/06\/waitangi-day-2025-record-crowds-maori-policy-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event in February that commemorates signing of New Zealand\u2019s founding document expected to draw tens of thousands but PM will not attendOrganisers of New Zealand\u2019s national day commemorating the signing of the country\u2019s founding treaty between M\u0101ori tr&#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-68764","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\/68764","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=68764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68765,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68764\/revisions\/68765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}