{"id":22649,"date":"2020-09-12T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/12\/have-your-say-what-are-the-issues-that-matter-in-the-new-zealand-election"},"modified":"2020-09-12T05:00:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T20:00:12","slug":"have-your-say-what-are-the-issues-that-matter-in-the-new-zealand-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22649","title":{"rendered":"Have your say: what are the issues that matter in the New Zealand election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the country heads towards a national election, how has the pandemic changed voters\u2019 priorities? Over to you &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>As New Zealand heads towards a general election on 17 October, health will no doubt be on the minds of many voters. But what are the other big issues that Kiwis are concerned about? Economic recovery and jobs are likely to be central, following the seven-week lockdown, and the continued closure of the border.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to 2020, Kiwi voters were passionate about a number of core issues, including housing, the environment, child poverty and the referendum questions on whether to legalise euthanasia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/02\/new-zealand-split-on-legalising-cannabis-in-reeferendum\">and marijuana.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/12\/have-your-say-what-are-the-issues-that-matter-in-the-new-zealand-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the country heads towards a national election, how has the pandemic changed voters\u2019 priorities? Over to you &#8230;.As New Zealand heads towards a general election on 17 October, health will no doubt be on the minds of many voters. But what are the othe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"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":[41,268,56,1594,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2020","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\/22649","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\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22650,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22649\/revisions\/22650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}