{"id":60347,"date":"2023-12-05T09:39:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T00:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/05\/christopher-luxon-new-zealand-coalition-struggles-with-self-inflicted-crises-but-it-has-time-to-recover-"},"modified":"2023-12-05T09:39:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T00:39:51","slug":"christopher-luxons-new-coalition-struggles-with-self-inflicted-crises-but-it-has-time-to-recover-henry-cooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60347","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Luxon\u2019s new coalition struggles with self-inflicted crises \u2013 but it has time to recover | Henry Cooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s incoming government still has three years to show it stands for something other than clumsily undoing Labour policies<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>New jobs are always hard, but most people get a day or two to find out just how bad they are going to be. As Christopher Luxon was sworn in as New Zealand\u2019s new prime minister last week, his government was already deep in the throes of its first communications crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The new governing coalition of three rightwing parties had agreed, at the reported insistence of the two smaller ones, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/27\/new-zealand-scraps-world-first-smoking-generation-ban-to-fund-tax-cuts\">scrap a series of hardline anti-smoking measures<\/a> the previous government had been planning, including controls on how many stores could sell tobacco and a rising legal age of purchase that would mean children born after 2009 would never be able to buy cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/05\/christopher-luxon-new-zealand-coalition-struggles-with-self-inflicted-crises-but-it-has-time-to-recover-\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s incoming government still has three years to show it stands for something other than clumsily undoing Labour policiesNew jobs are always hard, but most people get a day or two to find out just how bad they are going to be. As Christopher &#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":[41,2765,619,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christopher-luxon","category-national-party","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60347","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=60347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60348,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60347\/revisions\/60348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}