{"id":8839,"date":"2019-09-10T12:21:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T03:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/10\/new-zealand-labour-faces-sexual-assault-crisis-as-jacinda-ardern-sets-up-inquiry"},"modified":"2019-09-10T12:21:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T03:21:36","slug":"new-zealand-labour-faces-sexual-assault-crisis-as-jacinda-ardern-sets-up-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8839","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Labour faces sexual assault crisis as Jacinda Ardern sets up inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM says she found out allegation against party staffer was of a sexual nature only from reading media report<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s Labour party is in crisis after a 19-year-old member claimed she was sexually assaulted by a staffer who works in parliament house and prime minister Jacinda Ardern said she was not told of the nature of the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m obviously incredibly frustrated, disappointed and concerned about this situation and the competing advice I have received,\u201d said Ardern, who added that a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/thespinoff.co.nz\/unsponsored\/09-09-2019\/a-labour-volunteer-alleged-violent-sexual-assault-by-a-senior-staffer-this-is-her-story\/\">report by the Spinoff<\/a> was the first time she knew that one of the complaints involved a sexual violation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/10\/new-zealand-labour-faces-sexual-assault-crisis-as-jacinda-ardern-sets-up-inquiry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM says she found out allegation against party staffer was of a sexual nature only from reading media reportNew Zealand\u2019s Labour party is in crisis after a 19-year-old member claimed she was sexually assaulted by a staffer who works in parliament house&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"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":[41,268,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839","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\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8840,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions\/8840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}