{"id":71120,"date":"2025-04-17T08:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T23:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/17\/waitangi-tribunal-new-zealand-50-years-maori-rights"},"modified":"2025-04-17T08:43:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T23:43:58","slug":"fifty-years-on-new-zealands-tribunal-upholding-maori-rights-faces-a-turning-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71120","title":{"rendered":"Fifty years on, New Zealand\u2019s tribunal upholding M\u0101ori rights faces a turning point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Waitangi Tribunal has had a significant impact on Indigenous rights and policy but as it marks its 50th anniversary its role is being questioned<\/p>\n<p>In the 1980s, New Zealand\u2019s department of M\u0101ori affairs set aside money for language groups to spend on projects as they saw fit. When Wellington teacher Huirangi Waikerepuru received his group\u2019s share, he used it to challenge the government.<\/p>\n<p>He took his complaint to a relatively new body called the Waitangi Tribunal. Formed in 1975 amid a wave of protest, it was designed to address M\u0101ori grievances by determining whether the meaning of the country\u2019s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, was being adhered to.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/17\/waitangi-tribunal-new-zealand-50-years-maori-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Waitangi Tribunal has had a significant impact on Indigenous rights and policy but as it marks its 50th anniversary its role is being questionedIn the 1980s, New Zealand\u2019s department of M\u0101ori affairs set aside money for language groups to spend on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4421,"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-71120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71120","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\/4421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71121,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71120\/revisions\/71121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}