{"id":24017,"date":"2020-10-21T04:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/21\/a-midwife-a-covid-19-expert-and-a-refugee-some-of-new-zealands-new-mps"},"modified":"2020-10-21T04:30:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:30:14","slug":"a-midwife-a-covid-19-expert-and-a-refugee-some-of-new-zealands-new-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24017","title":{"rendered":"A midwife, a Covid-19 expert and a refugee: some of New Zealand&#8217;s new MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour\u2019s ranks have been swelled by New Zealand\u2019s first African MP, just one example of an more diverse Parliament<\/p>\n<p>The landslide victory for Labour will see 64 left-leaning MPs enter parliament this week \u2013 many of them fresh and untested.<\/p>\n<p>The new parliament is also set to be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/19\/new-zealand-elects-most-diverse-parliament-boosting-female-lgbtiq-and-maori-mps\">most inclusive ever<\/a>, LGBTQ+ members making up 10%, and a high number of female MPs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/21\/a-midwife-a-covid-19-expert-and-a-refugee-some-of-new-zealands-new-mps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour\u2019s ranks have been swelled by New Zealand\u2019s first African MP, just one example of an more diverse ParliamentThe landslide victory for Labour will see 64 left-leaning MPs enter parliament this week \u2013 many of them fresh and untested.The new parliam&#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":[41,56,1594,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24017","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\/24017","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=24017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24018,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24017\/revisions\/24018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}