{"id":75495,"date":"2025-02-06T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/waitangi-day-thousands-gather-in-new-zealand-with-maori-rights-in-focus-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:44:40","slug":"waitangi-day-thousands-gather-in-new-zealand-with-maori-rights-in-focus-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/waitangi-day-thousands-gather-in-new-zealand-with-maori-rights-in-focus-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Waitangi Day: Thousands gather in New Zealand with M\u0101ori rights in focus | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people have attended events in Waitangi, in northern New Zealand, to celebrate the country&#8217;s national day amid a <!--more--> debate over the future of its founding document.<\/p>\n<p>Waitangi Day marks the first signing of New Zealand&#8217;s Treaty of Waitangi or Te Tiriti o Waitangi in M\u0101ori between the British Crown and M\u0101ori chiefs in 1840.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Christopher Luxon &#8211; who attended an event in the South Island &#8211; described the day as an opportunity to reflect on New Zealand&#8217;s past as it charts its future.<\/p>\n<p>But this year&#8217;s events come at a time of increased tensions, as the government pursues policies considered by some to be anti-M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people have attended events in Waitangi, in northern New Zealand, to celebrate the country&#8217;s national day amid a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}