{"id":49140,"date":"2022-10-07T14:38:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T05:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/from-minister-to-lobbyist-in-three-months-new-zealand-needs-to-do-better-on-transparency"},"modified":"2022-10-07T14:38:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T05:38:37","slug":"from-minister-to-lobbyist-in-three-months-new-zealand-needs-to-do-better-on-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49140","title":{"rendered":"From minister to lobbyist in three months: New Zealand needs to do better on transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rules should not allow an MP to be reading cabinet papers in July and then lobbying former colleagues in October<\/p>\n<p>Every year, New Zealand\u2019s headline writers get a chance to clap the country on the back.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing we love more than being \u201cfirst in the world\u201d at something \u2013 whether it be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newshub.co.nz\/home\/lifestyle\/2019\/06\/how-the-flat-white-was-invented.html\">flat whites<\/a> or rugby union \u2013 and Transparency International\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparency.org\/en\/cpi\/2021?gclid=Cj0KCQjw-fmZBhDtARIsAH6H8qhkg9k2xOtA8dYxAvhyZmQsbki30PbYwvHB3Rsll9bW2wVL9r4X5_YaArGnEALw_wcB\">corruption perception index<\/a> fits the bill perfectly, generally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/25\/governments-around-the-world-used-covid-to-erode-human-rights-report\">putting us equal first<\/a> with other enlightened small democracies like Denmark.<\/p>\n<p><em>Henry Cooke is former chief political reporter for New Zealand news organisation Stuff<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/from-minister-to-lobbyist-in-three-months-new-zealand-needs-to-do-better-on-transparency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rules should not allow an MP to be reading cabinet papers in July and then lobbying former colleagues in OctoberEvery year, New Zealand\u2019s headline writers get a chance to clap the country on the back.There is nothing we love more than being \u201cfirst &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3237,"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":[41,1054,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-labour-party","category-new-zealand","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\/49140","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\/3237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49165,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49140\/revisions\/49165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}