{"id":10985,"date":"2019-11-12T04:14:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T19:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/12\/we-asked-how-new-zealand-should-prepare-for-5-million-here-are-your-answers"},"modified":"2019-11-12T04:14:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T19:14:45","slug":"we-asked-how-new-zealand-should-prepare-for-5-million-here-are-your-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10985","title":{"rendered":"We asked how New Zealand should prepare for 5 million: here are your answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three main themes stood out \u2013 better infrastructure, slowing immigration and more emphasis on the regions <\/p>\n<p>As New Zealand heads towards a population of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/04\/thinking-big-new-zealands-growing-pains-as-population-nears-5-million\">5 million people in early 2020<\/a>, we asked you what you thought were the most important issues and how they should be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Broadly speaking, three strong themes dominated your answers: <strong>infrastructure <\/strong>(including housing and transport), <strong>slowing immigration<\/strong> and encouraging migration to and investment in <strong>regional areas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/12\/we-asked-how-new-zealand-should-prepare-for-5-million-here-are-your-answers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three main themes stood out \u2013 better infrastructure, slowing immigration and more emphasis on the regions As New Zealand heads towards a population of 5 million people in early 2020, we asked you what you thought were the most important issues and how &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[41,56,706,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-population","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\/10985","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10986,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985\/revisions\/10986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}