{"id":76263,"date":"2026-02-07T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/06\/waitangi-day-maori-greet-new-zealand-pm-with-indifference"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:00:41","slug":"the-government-doesnt-care-maori-greet-new-zealand-pm-with-indifference-at-muted-waitangi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76263","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The government doesn\u2019t care\u2019: M\u0101ori greet New Zealand PM with indifference at muted Waitangi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subdued tone as political leaders spoke on eve of Waitangi Day amid some fatigue in M\u0101ori communities over divisive coalition policies<\/p>\n<p>When New Zealand\u2019s political leaders gathered to speak at the Waitangi treaty grounds where M\u0101ori chiefs and the British Crown forged a nation 186 years ago there was a striking absence: the public.<\/p>\n<p>As a light rain fell on the green peninsula in the far north of New Zealand on Thursday, fewer than 100 people gathered to watch the leaders welcomed onto the grounds, and only a handful of people heckled ministers as they spoke.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/06\/waitangi-day-maori-greet-new-zealand-pm-with-indifference\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subdued tone as political leaders spoke on eve of Waitangi Day amid some fatigue in M\u0101ori communities over divisive coalition policiesWhen New Zealand\u2019s political leaders gathered to speak at the Waitangi treaty grounds where M\u0101ori chiefs and the Briti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4125,"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-76263","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\/76263","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\/4125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76264,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76263\/revisions\/76264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}