{"id":59205,"date":"2023-10-15T11:10:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T02:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/15\/some-of-jacinda-arderns-legacy-in-new-zealand-is-safe-a-lot-of-it-isnt"},"modified":"2023-10-15T11:10:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T02:10:21","slug":"some-of-jacinda-arderns-legacy-in-new-zealand-is-safe-a-lot-of-it-isnt-henry-cooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59205","title":{"rendered":"Some of Jacinda Ardern\u2019s legacy in New Zealand is safe. A lot of it isn\u2019t | Henry Cooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Housing, workplace and some benefit reforms on the chopping block as centre-right National-led coalition forms government<\/p>\n<p>The most common and cutting critique of Jacinda Ardern\u2019s Labour government was that it couldn\u2019t get anything done.<\/p>\n<p>Transport was the best cudgel for this attack. Ardern came to power promising a light rail line in Auckland that six years later nobody has started to build. Tens of millions were spent on planning a bridge across the city\u2019s harbour that ended up scrapped.<\/p>\n<p><em>Henry Cooke is a freelance journalist covering New Zealand politics<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/15\/some-of-jacinda-arderns-legacy-in-new-zealand-is-safe-a-lot-of-it-isnt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housing, workplace and some benefit reforms on the chopping block as centre-right National-led coalition forms governmentThe most common and cutting critique of Jacinda Ardern\u2019s Labour government was that it couldn\u2019t get anything done.Transport was the&#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":[41,2832,2765,268,56,2941,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-chris-hipkins","category-christopher-luxon","category-jacinda-ardern","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\/59205","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=59205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59206,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59205\/revisions\/59206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}