{"id":556611,"date":"2026-08-02T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556611\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:42:09","slug":"paul-spoonley-discusses-nz-firsts-new-parent-payment-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556611\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Spoonley discusses NZ First\u2019s new parent payment policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand First has announced a policy to pay parents $5000 a year for the first three years of a child&#8217;s life, for up to three children per family. Party Leader Winston Peters says the cash will encourage Kiwis to have more kids, and counter declining birthrates. Massey University&#8217;s Professor Paul Spoonley is an expert in the demographics and social change and spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand First has announced a policy to pay parents $5000 a year for the first three years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503287,"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":["post-556611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556611","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=556611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}