{"id":23136,"date":"2020-09-26T10:52:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T01:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/26\/she-set-the-benchmark-trailblazing-png-politician-nahau-rooney-dies-aged-75"},"modified":"2020-09-26T10:52:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T01:52:21","slug":"she-set-the-benchmark-trailblazing-png-politician-nahau-rooney-dies-aged-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23136","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;She set the benchmark&#8217;: trailblazing PNG politician Nahau Rooney dies, aged 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manus Island\u2019s Nahau Rooney, at one time the only woman in PNG\u2019s parliament, dedicated her life to advancing women in her country<\/p>\n<p>Hardworking, audacious, occasionally controversial, but always vivacious: one of Papua New Guinea\u2019s political pioneers, Nahau Rooney, has been remembered as a trailblazer for PNG women in power following her death on 15 September, aged 75.<\/p>\n<p>In 1977, Rooney was one of just three women elected to PNG\u2019s first post-independence parliament \u2013 out of 109 members \u2013 where she served as the regional member for the province of Manus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/26\/she-set-the-benchmark-trailblazing-png-politician-nahau-rooney-dies-aged-75\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manus Island\u2019s Nahau Rooney, at one time the only woman in PNG\u2019s parliament, dedicated her life to advancing women in her countryHardworking, audacious, occasionally controversial, but always vivacious: one of Papua New Guinea\u2019s political pioneers, Nah&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1578,"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":[41,646,874,267,704,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gender","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-women-in-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\/23136","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\/1578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23137,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23136\/revisions\/23137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}