{"id":48024,"date":"2022-08-31T12:37:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T03:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/31\/democracies-need-constant-reform-to-stay-strong-new-zealand-has-the-chance-to-do-that"},"modified":"2022-08-31T12:37:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T03:37:13","slug":"democracies-need-constant-reform-to-stay-strong-new-zealand-has-the-chance-to-do-that-golriz-ghahraman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48024","title":{"rendered":"Democracies need constant reform to stay strong, New Zealand has the chance to do that | Golriz Ghahraman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My member\u2019s bill that will look at political donations and expanding voting rights will soon be read in parliament. We need it to pass<\/p>\n<p>Democracy is a human right that in many ways underpins all other rights. <\/p>\n<p>But the symptoms of weakened democracy are all around us. Even here, in New Zealand, where we have one of the world\u2019s least corrupt and most stable democracies, we\u2019re not getting it right.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/31\/democracies-need-constant-reform-to-stay-strong-new-zealand-has-the-chance-to-do-that\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My member\u2019s bill that will look at political donations and expanding voting rights will soon be read in parliament. We need it to passDemocracy is a human right that in many ways underpins all other rights. But the symptoms of weakened democracy are al&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","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\/48024","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48025,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48024\/revisions\/48025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}