{"id":576450,"date":"2026-08-22T02:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576450\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T02:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:18:11","slug":"protesters-interrupt-acts-south-island-campaign-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576450\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters interrupt Act\u2019s South Island campaign launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The Act Party had been announcing its proposal for a national cancer centre, receiving a positive response at the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Act list candidate Paul Henry publicly raised the idea as an off-the-cuff remark and said he expected to be chastised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">But he told the crowd at the launch the party has now adopted the policy, and will build the $2 billion centre if re-elected in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Henry said the centre would have two major campuses \u2013 one in Auckland and one in Christchurch. He said the project would be funded by public-private partnership financing, donations, existing Crown health investment and private capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Act Party had been announcing its proposal for a national cancer centre, receiving a positive response at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23503,1738,283824,2514,3331,111,43,139,69,25266,1240],"class_list":["post-576450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-acts","tag-campaign","tag-interrupt","tag-island","tag-launch","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-protesters","tag-south"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576450","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=576450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}