{"id":6709,"date":"2023-07-25T05:23:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T17:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6709"},"modified":"2023-07-25T05:23:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T17:23:20","slug":"mental-health-expert-on-kiri-allan-facing-criminal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6709","title":{"rendered":"Mental health expert on Kiri Allan facing criminal charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Mental Health Foundation says troubled former minister Kiri Allan should be held responsible for her actions, but the public also need to be understanding of the difficulty of navigating mental health issues in high-stress positions.<\/p>\n<p>The former justice minister\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/494338\/justice-minister-kiri-allan-resigns-after-being-charged-over-car-crash\">was\u00a0arrested on Sunday night<\/a>\u00a0after a car crash in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>She was charged with careless use of a motor vehicle and refusing to accompany a police officer, and issued an infringement notice for having excess breath alcohol between 250 and 400mcg. As a result, she has resigned from all of her portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>Mental Health Foundation chief executive Shaun Robinson told Checkpoint the situation required a mix of empathy and responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to be still responsible for our actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robinson said as a person with bipolar disorder himself, &#8220;I want to be treated as a person and judged on my work, and I think with politicians, anybody in the public eye, it&#8217;s the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kiri Allan needs to be judged and be accountable and be responsible for her actions. At the same time, we need to have compassion for people&#8217;s mental distress.<\/p>\n<p>Allan had been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/492799\/doc-boss-confirms-poor-relationships-in-minister-kiri-allan-s-office\">on leave over mental health issues\u00a0and problems in her personal life<\/a>\u00a0before her return to Parliament last week, and also faced accusations of bullying conduct.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Mental Health Foundation says troubled former minister Kiri Allan should be held responsible for her actions, but the public also need to be understanding of the difficulty of navigating mental health issues in high-stress positions. The former justice minister\u00a0was\u00a0arrested on Sunday night\u00a0after a car crash in Wellington. She was charged with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6711,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions\/6711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}