{"id":73948,"date":"2025-09-05T14:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/05\/new-zealand-maori-queen-first-speech"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:46:05","slug":"new-maori-queen-brings-hope-for-new-zealand-in-first-speech-being-maori-is-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73948","title":{"rendered":"New M\u0101ori queen brings hope for New Zealand in first speech: \u2018Being M\u0101ori is forever\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her first public address, Nga wai hono i te po spoke of unity and said M\u0101ori must \u2018walk a new path\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/11\/who-is-nga-wai-hono-i-te-po-new-zealand-maori-queen\">Who is New Zealand\u2019s M\u0101ori queen?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was the moment thousands had waited a year to see: New Zealand\u2019s new M\u0101ori Queen speaking to her people for the first time since being crowned. As a light rain fell, Nga wai hono i te po, the 28-year-old monarch, urged M\u0101ori to come together and \u201cwalk a new path\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nga wai hono i te po, the only daughter and youngest child of the former M\u0101ori King, ascended the throne a year ago after her father <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/30\/maori-king-tuheitia-paki-dies-aged-69-death-new-zealand\">died peacefully in his sleep.<\/a> A one-year period of mourning ensued, with custom requiring the queen to withhold speaking publicly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/05\/new-zealand-maori-queen-first-speech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her first public address, Nga wai hono i te po spoke of unity and said M\u0101ori must \u2018walk a new path\u2019Who is New Zealand\u2019s M\u0101ori queen?It was the moment thousands had waited a year to see: New Zealand\u2019s new M\u0101ori Queen speaking to her people for the fi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4944,"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-73948","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\/73948","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\/4944"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73949,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73948\/revisions\/73949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}