{"id":12203,"date":"2019-12-17T14:17:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T05:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/17\/biscuit-tin-democracy-the-humble-start-of-new-zealands-most-progressive-laws"},"modified":"2019-12-17T14:17:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T05:17:58","slug":"biscuit-tin-democracy-the-humble-start-of-new-zealands-most-progressive-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12203","title":{"rendered":"Biscuit tin democracy: the humble start of New Zealand&#8217;s most progressive laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Numbers are drawn from a 30-year-old biscuit tin to decide which members\u2019 bills will be debated in parliament<\/p>\n<p>It is usually the proviso of Christmas Day snacking or visits to your nan\u2019s. But in New Zealand \u2013 a country with a penchant for on-the-fly problem-solving \u2013 the humble biscuit tin has become a mainstay of parliamentary democracy.<\/p>\n<p>There, as in Britain, members\u2019 bills are a chance for MPs to have laws that they have proposed debated in the house.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/17\/biscuit-tin-democracy-the-humble-start-of-new-zealands-most-progressive-laws\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numbers are drawn from a 30-year-old biscuit tin to decide which members\u2019 bills will be debated in parliamentIt is usually the proviso of Christmas Day snacking or visits to your nan\u2019s. But in New Zealand \u2013 a country with a penchant for on-the-fly prob&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/12203","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12204,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12203\/revisions\/12204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}