{"id":69654,"date":"2025-02-25T02:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T17:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/24\/new-zealand-minister-quits-after-having-placed-hand-on-staffers-arm"},"modified":"2025-02-25T02:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T17:59:10","slug":"new-zealand-minister-quits-after-having-placed-hand-on-staffers-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69654","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand minister quits after having \u2018placed hand\u2019 on staffer\u2019s arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I took the discussion too far,\u2019 says commerce minister Andrew Bayly, calling his own behaviour \u2018overbearing\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand government minister said on Monday he had resigned from his post after \u201cplacing his hand\u201d on a staff member\u2019s upper arm during an \u201canimated\u201d discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s minister for commerce and consumer affairs, Andrew Bayly, told reporters his behaviour towards the staff member had been \u201coverbearing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/24\/new-zealand-minister-quits-after-having-placed-hand-on-staffers-arm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I took the discussion too far,\u2019 says commerce minister Andrew Bayly, calling his own behaviour \u2018overbearing\u2019A New Zealand government minister said on Monday he had resigned from his post after \u201cplacing his hand\u201d on a staff member\u2019s upper arm during an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69654","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69655,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69654\/revisions\/69655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}