{"id":9662,"date":"2024-04-29T16:54:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T04:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9662"},"modified":"2024-04-29T16:54:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T04:54:29","slug":"prime-minister-christopher-luxon-speaks-at-post-cabinet-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9662","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon speaks at post-Cabinet conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any school not putting in place the new ban on phones will face a visit from the Education Review Office, Education Minister Erica Stanford says.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon are speaking to media at the regular post-Cabinet conference after announcing the government&#8217;s new education priorities.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as the coalition government&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/508614\/school-phone-ban-students-seem-to-be-okay-with-it\">ban on phones in schools<\/a>\u00a0comes into action.<\/p>\n<p>The government is facing backlash after Te Whatu Ora confirmed public hospitals needed to make target savings of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/515300\/hospitals-asked-to-save-total-of-105-million-by-july-te-whatu-ora-confirms\">$105 million by July<\/a>, saying it was about bringing the organisation back to budget.<\/p>\n<p>It said several districts have gone over budget in the past three months, adding it is &#8220;reducing the overspend, not making cuts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Former Te Whatu Ora chairperson Rob Campbell said that felt like a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/515345\/former-te-whatu-ora-chairperson-rob-campbell-criticises-health-nz-s-savings-directive\">last-minute panic on behalf of management<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Watch the livestream above and follow RNZ&#8217;s liveblog below from about 4pm:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any school not putting in place the new ban on phones will face a visit from the Education Review Office, Education Minister Erica Stanford says. Stanford and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon are speaking to media at the regular post-Cabinet conference after announcing the government&#8217;s new education priorities. It comes as the coalition government&#8217;s\u00a0ban on phones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,208,174,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662","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=9662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9663,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662\/revisions\/9663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}