{"id":70769,"date":"2025-04-04T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T04:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/04\/new-zealands-controversial-bill-to-reinterpret-treaty-with-maori-should-be-scrapped-committee-finds"},"modified":"2025-04-04T13:51:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T04:51:22","slug":"new-zealands-controversial-bill-to-reinterpret-treaty-with-maori-should-be-scrapped-committee-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70769","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s controversial bill to reinterpret treaty with M\u0101ori should be scrapped, committee finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justice committee said the majority of public submissions oppose the legislation, which seeks to reinterpret the country\u2019s founding document <\/p>\n<p>A parliamentary committee has recommended a bill that seeks to radically reinterpret New Zealand\u2019s founding treaty between M\u0101ori tribes and the British Crown should not proceed.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/07\/treaty-of-waitangi-new-zealand-founding-document-changes-bill\">treaty principles bill<\/a>, which was introduced to parliament by the minor coalition Act party, seeks to abandon a set of well-established principles that guide the relationship between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/m-ori\">M\u0101ori<\/a> and ruling authorities in favour of its own redefined principles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/04\/new-zealands-controversial-bill-to-reinterpret-treaty-with-maori-should-be-scrapped-committee-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice committee said the majority of public submissions oppose the legislation, which seeks to reinterpret the country\u2019s founding document A parliamentary committee has recommended a bill that seeks to radically reinterpret New Zealand\u2019s founding tre&#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":[41,897,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","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\/70769","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=70769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70770,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70769\/revisions\/70770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}