{"id":70960,"date":"2025-04-11T14:38:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T05:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/11\/new-zealands-divisive-treaty-principles-bill-has-been-defeated-but-the-fight-against-populism-isnt-over"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T05:38:47","slug":"new-zealands-divisive-treaty-principles-bill-has-been-defeated-but-the-fight-against-populism-isnt-over-chris-finlayson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70960","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s divisive treaty principles bill has been defeated \u2013 but the fight against populism isn\u2019t over | Chris Finlayson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The damage caused by the treaty bill to M\u0101ori relations will take time to repair and debate over the issue may spill into next year\u2019s election campaign<\/p>\n

The New Zealand parliament this week voted down<\/a> the treaty principles bill \u2013 legislation that has caused more division in our country than any other proposal in recent memory.<\/p>\n

I have been around for long enough to remember the debates about the nuclear free legislation and homosexual law reform in the 1980s, and the treaty bill generated at least as much debate as those two highly controversial measures. It sought to redefine the principles that flow from New Zealand\u2019s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The damage caused by the treaty bill to M\u0101ori relations will take time to repair and debate over the issue may spill into next year\u2019s election campaignThe New Zealand parliament this week voted down the treaty principles bill \u2013 legislation that has cau…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4687,"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-70960","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\/70960","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\/4687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70961,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70960\/revisions\/70961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}