{"id":47522,"date":"2022-08-16T13:17:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T04:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/16\/new-zealand-anti-vax-group-urges-supporters-to-stand-for-councils-and-throw-weight-around"},"modified":"2022-08-16T13:17:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T04:17:31","slug":"new-zealand-anti-vax-group-urges-supporters-to-stand-for-councils-and-throw-weight-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47522","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand anti-vax group urges supporters to stand for councils and \u2018throw weight around\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters urged to \u2018do their homework\u2019 after Voices for Freedom reportedly suggested potential candidates hide affiliation to the group in candidate paperwork<\/p>\n<p>An anti-vaccine group that was involved in the weeks-long occupation at parliament this year has called on its supporters to take up positions in New Zealand\u2019s local government so they can \u201cthrow their weight around\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Voices for Freedom group was one of many affiliated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/02\/police-move-to-clear-new-zealand-protests-as-maori-king-calls-for-end-to-occupation\">February protest <\/a>that was nominally about the government\u2019s vaccine-mandate rules, but which reflected an extensive list of complaints, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/09\/lets-remember-why-we-are-here-new-zealand-anti-vax-protest-splinters-into-jibes-and-jabs\">QAnon-style conspiracies and vaccine-scepticism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/16\/new-zealand-anti-vax-group-urges-supporters-to-stand-for-councils-and-throw-weight-around\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters urged to \u2018do their homework\u2019 after Voices for Freedom reportedly suggested potential candidates hide affiliation to the group in candidate paperworkAn anti-vaccine group that was involved in the weeks-long occupation at parliament this year has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47522","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47552,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47522\/revisions\/47552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}