{"id":53364,"date":"2023-03-13T13:58:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/13\/new-zealand-scraps-transport-emissions-reform-to-fund-welfare-increase"},"modified":"2023-03-13T13:58:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:58:38","slug":"new-zealand-scraps-transport-emissions-reform-to-fund-welfare-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53364","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand scraps transport emissions reform to fund welfare increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clean car upgrade scheme among measures to be cut but PM Chris Hipkins denies government is abandoning climate ambitions<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s government is dumping a range of high-profile reforms and emissions reduction measures as part of its promise to refocus on \u201cbread and butter issues\u201d, using the savings to introduce a billion-dollar boost to welfare payments to relieve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/25\/chris-hipkins-sworn-in-as-new-zealand-prime-minister-nz-pm\">cost of living pressures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hipkins, the prime minister, announced on Monday that the government would roll out increases for retirees, students, unemployed people, and parents, ranging from $19 to $46.20 a week. The government estimates that 1.4 million New Zealanders will benefit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/13\/new-zealand-scraps-transport-emissions-reform-to-fund-welfare-increase\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean car upgrade scheme among measures to be cut but PM Chris Hipkins denies government is abandoning climate ambitionsNew Zealand\u2019s government is dumping a range of high-profile reforms and emissions reduction measures as part of its promise to refoc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/53364","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53365,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53364\/revisions\/53365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}