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Monday 21 August 2017

Branches Of Government

If I were a Prime Minister for a day....
If I had the opportunity to be New Zealand’s Prime Minister for a day, little things will be equaled with the big things. I would make the payment rates increase to its suitable. So that families can be happy with their income to pay their bills, and other priorities. Making it easy for the families to make their right choices. Another change that will occur would be the poverty. I will no longer allow the poor to become homeless and live on the streets, I’ll create departments for them to live in with no payments received or asked. I will do my best to represent NZ’s thoughts and concerns appear righteously. Hoping that everything will go well and that less complaints will show up. But this is only if I’m a Prime Minister for a day:)

Where parties sit in Parliament
As part of our Government task today, we recieved this link that shows where parties seat in Parliament - an example shown below. Under this photo has a table with questions that needs to be answered from the link. Click on the link and also explore the table to find out!
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Question
Answer
  1. What is the name of the speaker of the house?
David Carter (National)
2.  How many seats do each of these parties have?
  • National
58 National seats (including speaker)
  • Labour
31 Labour seats
  • Green Party
14 Green Party seats
  • NZ First
12 NZ First seats
  • Maori Party
2 Maori Party seats
  • Act
1 Act Party seat
  • United Future
1 United Future seat
3.  Find our Prime Minister Bill English.  Click on his parliamentary biography.

What was the date he was first elected?  
21st October 1990
4.  Find Jacinda Ardern in Labour and Click on her parliamentary biography.  What is her parliamentary role?
Leader of Opposition
5.  What parties do these MP’s belong to?

Jonathan Young
National
Nicky Wagner
National
Louisa Wall
Labour
Sarah Dowie
National
Clayton Mitchell
NZ First Party
Marama Fox
Maori Party
Barry Coates
Green Party
Stuart Nash
Labour

1 comment:

  1. Kia ora Taunese,

    I enjoyed reading your post. Homelessness, as you pointed out, is a major issue that NZ faces and is recent data shows that NZ has the worst rate of homelessness in the OECD (http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/07/nz-s-homelessness-the-worst-in-oecd-by-far.html). It is good to start looking at how the parliament works now, then when you're 18 you make make an informed vote!

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