{"id":58635,"date":"2023-09-23T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/22\/how-david-seymour-hopes-to-move-new-zealand-to-the-right"},"modified":"2023-09-23T05:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T20:00:08","slug":"how-david-seymour-hopes-to-move-new-zealand-to-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58635","title":{"rendered":"How David Seymour hopes to move New Zealand to the right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls put New Zealand on track to elect its most rightwing coalition government in decades as Act\u2019s supporters grow<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/new-zealand-election-2023\">Read all our New Zealand election 2023 coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cFour times in New Zealand history, there\u2019s been quite significant turning points,\u201d says David Seymour. He takes a miniature chocolate bar from the bowl in front of him and twirls it on the table, listing them off: the Treaty of Waitangi, marking the beginning of the nation. New Zealand granting universal suffrage, the first country in the world to do so. The creation of the current, party-based political system. And the free-market reforms brought in by the Labour government in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just make the point that \u2026 in my view, there\u2019s never been reform from the right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/22\/how-david-seymour-hopes-to-move-new-zealand-to-the-right\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls put New Zealand on track to elect its most rightwing coalition government in decades as Act\u2019s supporters growRead all our New Zealand election 2023 coverage\u201cFour times in New Zealand history, there\u2019s been quite significant turning points,\u201d says D&#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":[41,56,2941],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2023"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58635","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=58635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58636,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58635\/revisions\/58636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}