{"id":21935,"date":"2020-08-22T10:59:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T01:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/22\/from-stand-up-comedy-to-challenging-the-system-the-ambitious-chloe-swarbrick"},"modified":"2020-08-22T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T01:59:24","slug":"from-stand-up-comedy-to-challenging-the-system-the-ambitious-chloe-swarbrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21935","title":{"rendered":"From stand-up comedy to challenging the system: the ambitious Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s youngest MP is now 26 and has set her sights on the economics portfolio<\/p>\n<p>Everything below her eyes is covered with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles face mask, but the few passers-by on the near-empty streets of Auckland still recognise Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick. New Zealand\u2019s largest city is under a second lockdown to quell a resurgence of Covid-19 and Swarbrick, who became New Zealand\u2019s youngest lawmaker since 1975 when she took office in 2017, at 23, is out for her permitted daily walk for an oat-milk coffee, the Guardian accompanying her by video call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is where I wash my clothes,\u201d she says, stepping into an empty laundromat. Swarbrick, who is spending the lockdown in her small central city apartment , has been a familiar face on these streets for years, as a philosophy and law student, business owner, alternative radio journalist, and as a candidate for the city\u2019s mayor, aged 22, just before she headed to parliament in the capital, Wellington. When she steps back out into Auckland\u2019s blustery wind, another \u201cHi Chl\u00f6e!\u201d is audible.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/22\/from-stand-up-comedy-to-challenging-the-system-the-ambitious-chloe-swarbrick\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s youngest MP is now 26 and has set her sights on the economics portfolioEverything below her eyes is covered with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles face mask, but the few passers-by on the near-empty streets of Auckland still recognise Chl\u00f6e &#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":[41,56,1594,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2020","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\/21935","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=21935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21936,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21935\/revisions\/21936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}