{"id":57055,"date":"2023-07-29T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/28\/kiri-allan-new-zealand-mp-quits-resigns-mental-health"},"modified":"2023-07-29T05:00:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:00:19","slug":"the-downfall-of-kiri-allan-new-zealand-wrestles-with-mental-health-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57055","title":{"rendered":"The downfall of Kiri Allan: New Zealand wrestles with mental health debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High-profile minister\u2019s resignation prompts questions about toll of working in parliament and how to talk about mental health struggles<\/p>\n<p>It was an abrupt end to the political career of a rising star: Kiri Allan \u2013 New Zealand\u2019s justice minister and tipped by many to one day lead the country \u2013 first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/24\/kiri-allan-resigns-car-crash-new-zealand-justice-minister\">quit as a minister<\/a> then said she would not seek re-election, after she was charged with careless driving following a car crash and amid weeks of news reports about her mental health.<\/p>\n<p>Her sudden departure has prompted questions in New Zealand about the toll of working at parliament on politicians\u2019 wellbeing. It also provoked fraught and uncertain debate about how to discuss the mental health struggles of public figures \u2013 particularly those of a senior cabinet minister, three months before a national election.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/28\/kiri-allan-new-zealand-mp-quits-resigns-mental-health\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-profile minister\u2019s resignation prompts questions about toll of working in parliament and how to talk about mental health strugglesIt was an abrupt end to the political career of a rising star: Kiri Allan \u2013 New Zealand\u2019s justice minister and tipped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[41,744,56,2941,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-mental-health","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2023","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\/57055","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57056,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57055\/revisions\/57056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}