{"id":77094,"date":"2026-04-21T19:39:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/21\/supporters-of-new-zealand-goldmine-threaten-sam-neill-with-violence"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:39:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:39:35","slug":"sam-neill-says-new-zealand-goldmine-supporters-have-threatened-him-with-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77094","title":{"rendered":"Sam Neill says New Zealand goldmine supporters have threatened him with violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor, who has publicly objected to plans to fast-track project near his farm, says he has received personal abuse<\/p>\n<p>The actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/11\/sam-neill-vineyard-bendigo-ophir-goldmine-otago-santana-minerals\">Sam Neill<\/a> says he has received threats of violence from supporters of a controversial goldmine that could be opened several kilometres away from his farm in New Zealand\u2019s Central Otago district, after he publicly objected to the government\u2019s plans to fast-track the mine.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian mining company Santana Minerals is pushing to expedite a 85-hectare (210-acre) open-cast goldmine, called Bendigo-Ophir, in the Dunstan mountains, an area described as \u201coutstanding natural landscape\u201d by the Central Otago district council.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/21\/supporters-of-new-zealand-goldmine-threaten-sam-neill-with-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor, who has publicly objected to plans to fast-track project near his farm, says he has received personal abuseThe actor Sam Neill says he has received threats of violence from supporters of a controversial goldmine that could be opened several kilo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3291,"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":[41,65,730,56,933,3528,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-mining","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-sam-neill","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\/77094","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\/3291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77095,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77094\/revisions\/77095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}