{"id":58425,"date":"2023-09-16T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/16\/new-zealand-election-issues-debate-cost-of-living"},"modified":"2023-09-16T05:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T20:00:10","slug":"new-zealand-voters-search-for-relief-to-shocking-living-costs-as-election-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58425","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand voters search for relief to \u2018shocking\u2019 living costs as election looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tax cuts and cheaper fruit among Labour and National party plans to address rising cost of living pressures as people once comfortable are swept into crisis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/new-zealand-election-2023\">Read all our coverage of the 2023 New Zealand election<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A weekly treat of takeaway dinner became fortnightly, then monthly. Trips to the movies were cut. So were dentist appointments \u2013 and salads.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past six months, Anum Najif, 35, has found every supermarket visit \u201cmore difficult than the one before\u201d. Power bills are \u201cshocking\u201d. Rent, she adds, \u201cis that kind of topic where I really don\u2019t know what to do or how to manage it any more\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/16\/new-zealand-election-issues-debate-cost-of-living\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tax cuts and cheaper fruit among Labour and National party plans to address rising cost of living pressures as people once comfortable are swept into crisisRead all our coverage of the 2023 New Zealand electionA weekly treat of takeaway dinner became f&#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":[41,2535,56,2941,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cost-of-living-crisis","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\/58425","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=58425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58429,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58425\/revisions\/58429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}