{"id":246432,"date":"2026-01-22T17:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/246432\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:14:09","slug":"prime-minister-skipping-ratana-to-visit-weather-hit-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/246432\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister skipping R\u0101tana to visit weather-hit regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4KVWCTT_Luxon_at_Ratana_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Christopher Luxon at R\u0101tana, January 2024.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe Prime Minister will be visiting regions affected by severe weather.<br \/>\nPhoto: Angus Dreaver \/ RNZ\n<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has pulled out of R\u0101tana celebrations on Friday to visit regions hard hit by this week&#8217;s weather bomb.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from his office confirmed Luxon was making arrangements to travel to East Cape and Bay of Plenty instead.<\/p>\n<p>They said the Prime Minister had spoken to R\u0101tana church leaders on Thursday afternoon who asked he pass on their well wishes to those affected by the storm.<\/p>\n<p>The National Party will still be represented at R\u0101tana by Nicola Willis and Tama Potaka.<\/p>\n<p>Labour, the Greens, New Zealand First and Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori are expected to be at the event.<\/p>\n<p>The ACT Party doesn&#8217;t typically attend R\u0101tana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prime Minister will be visiting regions affected by severe weather. Photo: Angus Dreaver \/ RNZ Prime Minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-246432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}